The rapid diagnosis of pathogens is crucial in the early stages of treatment of diseases
where the choice of the correct drug can be critical. Although conventional cell culture-based …

Submillimeter-scale domains offer wide-ranging benefits for chemical and biological fields,
which have motivated researchers to develop a diversity of strategies for manufacturing …

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) offers the capabilities of real-time monitoring
of amplified products, fast detection, and quantitation of infectious units, but poses technical …

▪ Abstract Soft lithography, a set of techniques for microfabrication, is based on printing and
molding using elastomeric stamps with the patterns of interest in bas-relief. As a technique …

3D printing has emerged as a valuable approach for the fabrication of fluidic devices and
may replace soft-lithography as the method of choice for rapid prototyping. The potential of …

The suitability of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWD) microfluidics for true lab-on-a-chip
applications is discussed. The wide diversity in biomedical applications can be parsed into …

This review gives a brief overview of microvalves, and focuses on the actuation mechanisms
and their applications. One of the stumbling blocks for successful miniaturization and …

After having reviewed some aspects of microfluidic system preparation in the first part (1), in
this second part of the review we will cover a number of standard operations (namely …

(57) ABSTRACT A microfluidic device for analyzing and/or sorting biological materials (eg,
molecules such as polynucleotides and polypeptides, including proteins and enzymes; …

“With the fundamentals of microscale flow and species transport well developed, the recent
trend in microfluidics has been to work towards the development of integrated devices which …