Paper is a common material that is promising for constructing microfluidic chips (lab-on-a-
paper) for diagnostics and drug delivery for biomedical applications. In the past decade …

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has boosted the
development of antiviral research. Microfluidic technologies offer powerful platforms for …

Cryptosporidium is a critical waterborne protozoan pathogen found in water resources that
have been a major cause of death and serious illnesses worldwide, costing millions of …

We present the RespiDisk enabling the fully automated and multiplex point-of-care (POC)
detection of (currently) up to 19 respiratory tract infection (RTI) pathogens from a single …

Periodontitis and dental caries are two major bacterially induced, non-communicable
diseases that cause the deterioration of oral health, with implications in patients' general …

Background In this work, a platform was developed and tested to allow to detect a variety of
candidate viral, bacterial and parasitic pathogens, for acute fever of unknown origin. The …

Microorganisms, encompassing both uni-and multicellular entities, exhibit remarkable
diversity as omnipresent life forms in nature. They play a pivotal role by supplying essential …

Microfluidic devices have emerged as a promising platform for point-of-care biological
analysis, including PCR-based molecular diagnostics. However, the multi-layer …

Nucleic acid testing (NAT) played a crucial role in containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2
during the epidemic. The gold standard technique, the quantitative real-time polymerase …

Background The fast turnaround time and user-friendliness of point-of-care tests (POCTs)
offer a great potential to improve outpatient health care where clinical decisions have to be …