A similar approach to Blood counting was demonstrate by researchers at University of Illinois by lysing the blood within the biochip and using impedance counting.

Despite 70% of Indian population living in rural India, they face a major gap in high quality diagnostics services due to scarcity of pathology labs and testing facilities

Acoustophoretic separation uses a piezoelectric material to produce Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) to separate lighter platelets from the rest of the blood