Microfluidics for sperm research

SM Knowlton, M Sadasivam, S Tasoglu - Trends in biotechnology, 2015 - cell.com
One in six couples of reproductive age worldwide are affected at least once by some form of
infertility. In vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are widely …

Advances in microfluidics in combating infectious diseases

A Tay, A Pavesi, SR Yazdi, CT Lim, ME Warkiani - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the important pursuits in science and engineering research today is to develop low-
cost and user-friendly technologies to improve the health of people. Over the past decade …

Clustered Regularly Interspaced short palindromic repeats‐Based Microfluidic System in Infectious Diseases Diagnosis: Current Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

Y Xie, H Li, F Chen, S Udayakumar, K Arora… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mitigating the spread of global infectious diseases requires rapid and accurate diagnostic
tools. Conventional diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases typically require …

Flow chemistry in contemporary chemical sciences: A real variety of its applications

M Trojanowicz - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flow chemistry is an area of contemporary chemistry exploiting the hydrodynamic conditions
of flowing liquids to provide particular environments for chemical reactions. These particular …

Low-cost fabrication of a paper-based microfluidic using a folded pattern paper

L Xie, X Zi, H Zeng, J Sun, L Xu, S Chen - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite that microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) provide effective analytical
platforms for point-of-care diagnosis in resource-limited areas, it remains challenging to …

Malaria and the 'last'parasite: how can technology help?

NM Pham, W Karlen, HP Beck, E Delamarche - Malaria journal, 2018 - Springer
Malaria, together with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis are the four most deadly
infectious diseases globally. Progress in eliminating malaria has saved millions of lives, but …

Paper microchip with a graphene-modified silver nano-composite electrode for electrical sensing of microbial pathogens

M Safavieh, V Kaul, S Khetani, A Singh, K Dhingra… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and sensitive point-of-care diagnostics are of paramount importance for early
detection of infectious diseases and timely initiation of treatment. Here, we present cellulose …

The application of biomedical engineering techniques to the diagnosis and management of tropical diseases: a review

F Ibrahim, THG Thio, T Faisal, M Neuman - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews a number of biomedical engineering approaches to help aid in the
detection and treatment of tropical diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera …

On the slow diffusion of point-of-care systems in therapeutic drug monitoring

B Sanavio, S Krol - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent advancements in point-of-care (PoC) technologies show great transformative
promises for personalized preventative and predictive medicine. However, fields like …

Use of some cost-effective technologies for a routine clinical pathology laboratory

M Vázquez, L Anfossi, H Ben-Yoav, L Diéguez… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Classically, the need for highly sophisticated instruments with important economic costs has
been a major limiting factor for clinical pathology laboratories, especially in developing …