An interesting statistic to put this article into perspective.<p>1. This system scans 200,000 cells per second.
2. There are 30 trillion blood cells in an average human.<p>We'll have stuff like real time blood filtering eventually and when we do that will be something really really impressive.
Some background on what this could be used for:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry</a>