(August 18, 2005) Schärding, Austria and Singapore — EV Group announces lab-on-a-chip (LOC) research highlights achieved by their customer, Institute of Microelectronics (IME). IME wishes to develop a fully integrated LOC, also known as a Micro Total Analysis System (µTAS), which will perform the three functions of DNA/ RNA analysis — extraction, amplification (or multiplication), and detection in one chip. They forecast that this will be ready for commercial production in 2–3 years.