Point-of-care devices were originally designed to allow medical testing at or near the point of
care by health-care professionals. Some point-of-care devices allow medical self-testing at …

Near patient detection of viral infection represents a powerful approach for the control of
emerging threats to global health. Moreover, the ability to identify individuals who have …

The drying of a drop of blood or plasma on a solid substrate leads to the formation of
interesting and complex patterns. Inter-and intra-cellular and macromolecular interactions in …

Conspectus The global outbreaks of deadly infectious diseases caused by pathogenic
microorganisms have threatened public health worldwide and significantly motivated …

It has been 14 years since the inaugural microfluidics review in Analytical Chemistry was
published. 1 The first papers describing these devices which are also commonly referred to …

Fast and reliable diagnoses are invaluable in clinical care. Samples (eg, blood, urine, and
saliva) are collected and analyzed for various biomarkers to quickly and sensitively assess …

Circulating biomarkers are on the verge of becoming powerful diagnostic tools for various
human diseases. However, the complex sample composition makes it difficult to detect …

Suitable pumping methods for flow control remain a major technical hurdle in the path of
biomedical microfluidic systems for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics. A vacuum-driven power …

To meet stringent limit-of-detection specifications for low abundance target molecules, a
relatively large volume of plasma is needed for many blood-based clinical diagnostics …

We report a capillary flow-driven microfluidic device for blood-plasma separation that
comprises a cylindrical well between a pair of bottom and top channels. Exposure of the well …