• Question: what are microchips?

    Asked by 637dagg45 to Sarah, James on 8 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 857dagg45.
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      Sarah Hampson answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      A microchip is usually a tiny device with electronic circuits (so like this: http://tinyurl.com/q4xen3l)
      They’re found in computers, smart phones, cars, fridges, credit cards & loads of other stuff, & will carry out some kind of job for you (e.g. in a car they might control your engine)

      A newer type of microchip are ones that use fluids instead of electronics (like this: http://tinyurl.com/plp6hja). This is the type I make. These ones are really good to use for analysing cells, because cells can happily float around in them & won’t dry out 🙂

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