Micro-scale systems for bioanalysis based on integrated circuit technology. Biochips include molecular microarrays (gene chips, protein chips, small molecule chips), microfluidics systems (lab-on-a-chip), and fiber-optic-based arrays.

Developed by Christopher Mitchell for Maas Biolabs who hold the patents. Mitchell worked with human cancer cells and DNA synthesis to produce immortal hybrid cells. These cells create custom molecules that become units of circuitry.

A miniaturized device about the size of a fingernail that can perform thousands of biological reactions in a few seconds. Biochips are typically used in large scale genetic, DNA, toxicologic, and biochemical analyses. For example, all of the genes in human DNA (about 30,000) can be placed on a single biochip.

a budding one, and has the potential to be very large