Advances in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies

Authors: Harikrishnan Jayamohan, Valentin Romanov, Huizhong Li, Jiyoung Son, Raheel Samuel, John Nelson, Bruce Gale

Molecular Diagnostics (3rd Ed.), Academic Press, 2017, pp 197-217, ISBN 9780128029718
arXiv: 1703.08583v1 - DOI (q-bio.QM)

Abstract: Advances in molecular biology are enabling rapid and efficient analyses for effective intervention in domains such as biology research, infectious disease management, food safety, and biodefense. The emergence of microfluidics and nanotechnologies has enabled both new capabilities and instrument sizes practical for point-of-care. It has also introduced new functionality, enhanced sensitivity, and reduced the time and cost involved in conventional molecular diagnostic techniques. This chapter reviews the application of microfluidics for molecular diagnostics methods such as nucleic acid amplification, next-generation sequencing, high resolution melting analysis, cytogenetics, protein detection and analysis, and cell sorting. We also review microfluidic sample preparation platforms applied to molecular diagnostics and targeted to sample-in, answer-out capabilities.

Submitted to arXiv on 24 Mar. 2017

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