Following the development of microfluidic systems, there has been a high tendency towards
developing lab-on-a-chip devices for biochemical applications. A great deal of effort has …

The advent of glass-based microfluidic devices further revolutionized in microfluidic
technology due to the several advantageous properties in terms of photonics, electronics …

Microfluidics consist of microfabricated structures for liquid handling, with cross sections in
the 1–500 μm range and small volume capacity (femtoliter to nanoliter). Capillary tubes …

Electrochemistry, biosensors and microfluidics are popular research topics that have
attracted widespread attention from chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers. Here, we …

Digital microfluidics (DMF) is an emerging liquid-handling technology that enables
individual control over droplets on an open array of electrodes. These picoliter-to microliter …

Dried blood spots (DBS) typically consist in the deposition of small volumes of capillary
blood onto dedicated paper cards. Comparatively to whole blood or plasma samples, their …

This literature review highlights recent advances and challenges in applying dried blood
spots (DBS) as a cumulative technique for sample acquisition, transport, archiving, and …

Digital microfluidics (DMF) has recently emerged as a popular technology for a wide range
of applications. In DMF, nanoliter to microliter droplets containing samples and reagents can …

Molecular diagnostics is crucial for prevention, identification, and treatment of disease.
Traditional technologies for molecular diagnostics using blood are limited to laboratory use …

Assay devices designed for these applications offer improvements to existing methods or
provide fundamentally new strategies. Both mature methods and novel techniques have …