Microsystems for Point-of-Care Testing, Volume II
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 21521
Special Issue Editor
Interests: micro and nanofabrication; microfluidics; lab-on-chip; point-of-care diagnostic; pattern recognition
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Dear Colleagues,
Point-of-care (POC) testing offers the opportunity to move healthcare away from the symptomatic treatment of diseases toward more predictive, preventive and personalised medicine. POC testing has advantages over centralised rapid analysis laboratories with no requirement for expensive capital infrastructure or staff with specialist technical expertise. These devices are applicable in a variety of settings including within primary, secondary and tertiary care, as well as within low to medium income countries (LMICs). A wide range of advances—including in assays, transducers, microfluidics and device fabrication, connected instrumentation and data analytics—have allowed the development of a variety of applications, including for chronic and infectious disease conditions. These advances are reflected in an increasing number of scientific publications, patents and commercial products that demonstrate high sensitivity, selectivity and reliability, as well as fast, accurate, cost-effective and user-friendly assays.
On this research topic, we welcome review articles and original research papers aimed at the related key issues of basic research, material development, system integration and data management with new POC diagnostic technologies in the frame of emerging and demanding clinical and biotechnological applications.
Prof. Zulfiqur Ali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microfluidics
- Lab-on-a-chip
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Rapid diagnostics
- Cancer detection
- Infectious and chronic diseases
- Connected instrumentation
- Data analytics
- Device fabrication
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