Developing biomedical engineering technologies for reproductive medicine

Y Zhu, B Kong, R Liu, Y Zhao - Smart Medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Infertility is a rising global health issue with a far‐reaching impact on the socioeconomic
livelihoods. As there are highly complex causes of male and female infertility, it is highly …

Droplet digital PCR of viral‎ DNA/RNA, current progress, challenges, and future perspectives

AA Kojabad, M Farzanehpour… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput droplet‐based digital PCR (ddPCR) is a refinement of the conventional
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‎ methods. In ddPCR, DNA/RNA is encapsulated …

Cancer biomarker detection: recent achievements and challenges

L Wu, X Qu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The early detection of cancer can significantly reduce cancer mortality and saves lives. Thus,
a great deal of effort has been devoted to the exploration of new technologies to detect early …

Surface modification techniques for endothelial cell seeding in PDMS microfluidic devices

F Akther, SB Yakob, NT Nguyen, HT Ta - Biosensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip cell culture techniques have been gaining popularity by offering
the possibility of reducing the amount of samples and reagents and greater control over …

[HTML][HTML] Advantages and challenges of microfluidic cell culture in polydimethylsiloxane devices

S Halldorsson, E Lucumi, R Gómez-Sjöberg… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Culture of cells using various microfluidic devices is becoming more common within
experimental cell biology. At the same time, a technological radiation of microfluidic cell …

based microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices

AK Yetisen, MS Akram, CR Lowe - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Dipstick and lateral-flow formats have dominated rapid diagnostics over the last three
decades. These formats gained popularity in the consumer markets due to their …

Emerging technologies for next-generation point-of-care testing

SK Vashist, PB Luppa, LY Yeo, A Ozcan… - Trends in …, 2015 - cell.com
Considerable advances in point-of-care testing (POCT) devices stem from innovations in
cellphone (CP)-based technologies, paper-based assays (PBAs), lab-on-a-chip (LOC) …

[HTML][HTML] Development of glass-based microfluidic devices: A review on its fabrication and biologic applications

S Aralekallu, R Boddula, V Singh - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of glass-based microfluidic devices further revolutionized in microfluidic
technology due to the several advantageous properties in terms of photonics, electronics …

Polysaccharide‐based controlled release systems for therapeutics delivery and tissue engineering: from bench to bedside

T Miao, J Wang, Y Zeng, G Liu, X Chen - Advanced science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polysaccharides or polymeric carbohydrate molecules are long chains of monosaccharides
that are linked by glycosidic bonds. The naturally based structural materials are widely …

Micro/nano acoustofluidics: materials, phenomena, design, devices, and applications

W Connacher, N Zhang, A Huang, J Mei, S Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-
chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle …