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Disease diagnostics using hydrodynamic flow focusing in microfluidic devices: Beyond flow cytometry

Disease diagnostics using hydrodynamic flow focusing in microfluidic devices: Beyond flow cytometry The multi-disciplinary field of microfluidics has the potential to provide solutions to a diverse set of problems. It offers the advantages of high-throughput, continuous, rapid and expeditious analysis requiring minute quantities of sample. However, even as this field has yielded many mass-manufacturable and cost-efficient point-of-care devices, its direct and practical applications into the field of disease diagnostics still remain limited and largely overlooked by the industry. This review focuses on the phenomenon of hydrodynamic focusing and its potential to materialize solutions for appropriate diagnosis and prognosis. The study aims to look beyond its intended cytometric applications and focus on unambiguous disease detection, monitoring, drug delivery, studies conducted on DNA and highlight the instances in the scientific literature that have proposed such approach. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biomedical Engineering Letters Springer Journals

Disease diagnostics using hydrodynamic flow focusing in microfluidic devices: Beyond flow cytometry

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering 2020
Subject
Engineering; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Biomedicine, general; Medical and Radiation Physics
ISSN
2093-9868
eISSN
2093-985X
DOI
10.1007/s13534-019-00144-6
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Abstract

The multi-disciplinary field of microfluidics has the potential to provide solutions to a diverse set of problems. It offers the advantages of high-throughput, continuous, rapid and expeditious analysis requiring minute quantities of sample. However, even as this field has yielded many mass-manufacturable and cost-efficient point-of-care devices, its direct and practical applications into the field of disease diagnostics still remain limited and largely overlooked by the industry. This review focuses on the phenomenon of hydrodynamic focusing and its potential to materialize solutions for appropriate diagnosis and prognosis. The study aims to look beyond its intended cytometric applications and focus on unambiguous disease detection, monitoring, drug delivery, studies conducted on DNA and highlight the instances in the scientific literature that have proposed such approach.

Journal

Biomedical Engineering LettersSpringer Journals

Published: May 1, 2020

Keywords: Drug delivery; DNA; Blood; Point-of-care; Flow cytometer

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