Recent Advances in Microfluidic Biosensors in Biomedical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Microfluidic biosensors are crucial in biosensing applications. These miniature devices allow rapid, real-time analysis with minimized sample volumes. In biomedical and clinical settings, they play pivotal roles in disease diagnostics, biomarker monitoring, pathogen detection, and therapeutic drug monitoring. Their automation potential facilitates high-throughput screening, ensuring biocompatibility and reducing sample contamination in order to maintain the integrity of biological samples. The recent emphasis on developing microfluidic-based biosensor technologies with high sensitivity, reproducibility, and stability has made these devices a focal point of interest, particularly in the biomedical fields.

This Special Issue welcomes original research papers, as well as reviews of current developments in the design of high-sensitivity and reproducible microfluidic-based biosensors. This includes the design of state-of-the-art biosensors for disease biomarkers, characterization of biomolecules, biological analysis, and medical diagnostics, as well as biosensors for microphysiological systems /organ-on-a-chip platforms. The design and development of lab-on-a-chip devices, wearable and plug-and-play biosensors, and portable/handheld platforms for point-of-care applications are issues of special interest.

This Special Issue aims to shed light on these promising and dynamic areas of research and will allow the gathering of original research articles and comprehensive reviews on the role of the microfluidic biosensors and platforms for further improvement of this field for lab-on-a-chip devices, organ-on-a-chip platforms, point-of-care diagnostics, and in preclinical studies.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Novel devices/materials for microfluidic biosensors platforms;
• High throughput biosensing platforms for point-of-care diagnostic applications;
• Biosensor integration with in vitro models (organ-on-a-chip models);
• Wearable biosensors integrated with microfluidics;
• Microfluidic biosensors in food or environment science.

Dr. Rohollah Nasiri
Guest Editor

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• microfluidics
• electrochemical sensors
• optical sensors
• wearable sensors
• organ on a chip
• biosensors
• point of care diagnostics
• in vitro tissue models
• microphysiological sensors
• lab-on-a-chip
• drug screening