Fabrication methods for microfluidic devices: An overview

SM Scott, Z Ali - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices offer the potential to automate a wide variety of chemical and biological
operations that are applicable for diagnostic and therapeutic operations with higher …

REASSURED multiplex diagnostics: a critical review and forecast

JA Otoo, TS Schlappi - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The diagnosis of infectious diseases is ineffective when the diagnostic test does not meet
one or more of the necessary standards of affordability, accessibility, and accuracy. The …

Lab-on-a-disc for point-of-care infection diagnostics

V Sunkara, S Kumar, J Sabaté Del Río… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Reliable, inexpensive, and rapid diagnostic tools are essential to control and
prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Many commercial kits for coronavirus disease …

Sample preparation for lab-on-a-chip systems in molecular diagnosis: a review

ML Cunha, SS da Silva, MC Stracke… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Rapid and low-cost molecular analysis is especially required for early and specific
diagnostics, quick decision-making, and sparing patients from unnecessary tests and …

Advances in the rapid diagnostic of viral respiratory tract infections

G Gradisteanu Pircalabioru, FS Iliescu… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viral infections are a significant public health problem, primarily due to their high
transmission rate, various pathological manifestations, ranging from mild to severe …

Two-stage tuberculosis diagnostics: combining centrifugal microfluidics to detect TB infection and Inh and Rif resistance at the point of care with subsequent antibiotic …

J Schlanderer, H Hoffmann, J Lüddecke, A Golubov… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Globally, tuberculosis (TB) remains the deadliest bacterial infectious disease, and spreading
antibiotic resistances is the biggest challenge for combatting the disease. Rapid and …

Optofluidic systems enabling detection in real samples: A review

I Fernandez-Cuesta, A Llobera, M Ramos-Payán - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Optofluidics, understood as the synergistic combination between microfluidics and
photonics, has been at the forefront of the scientific research due to its outmatching …

A film-lever actuated switch technology for multifunctional, on-demand, and robust manipulation of liquids

C Liang, Z Yang, H Jiang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
A lab-on-a-chip system with Point-of-Care testing capability offers rapid and accurate
diagnostic potential and is useful in resource-limited settings where biomedical equipment …

OralDisk: a chair-side compatible molecular platform using whole saliva for monitoring oral health at the dental practice

D Baumgartner, B Johannsen, M Specht, J Lüddecke… - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Periodontitis and dental caries are two major bacterially induced, non-communicable
diseases that cause the deterioration of oral health, with implications in patients' general …

Patient Stratification for Antibiotic Prescriptions Based on the Bound-Free Phase Detection Immunoassay of C-Reactive Protein in Serum Samples

B Johannsen, D Baumgartner, M Karpíšek, D Stejskal… - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
C-reactive protein is a well-studied host response biomarker, whose diagnostic performance
depends on its accurate classification into concentration zones defined by clinical scenario …