Biomolecular Detection Based on Microfluidic Platform
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 November 2023) | Viewed by 556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microfluidics and nanofluidics; interfacial phenomena and phase change; biomedical engineering; medical diagnostics
Interests: microfabrication; microfluidics; biosensors
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Dear Colleagues,
The recent pandemic has exposed the challenges due to non-availability of diagnostic technologies that are accurate yet low cost, accessible, user-friendly and amenable to massive manufacturing scale-up and parallelization. The availability of such easy-to-use and reasonably sensitive detection method for community level testing holds the potential of capturing the commonly missed cases of early infection and asymptomatic disease presentation and reduce the opportunity for community-level transmission. Such compelling needs, along with other prevailing public health challenges, have triggered very active research towards developing novel molecular diagnostic technologies with particular focus on innovative biosensing platforms for molecular analysis. The special issue aims to showcase some of the related recent original innovations, along with example cases of technology translation and adaptation in under-resourced settings, having interdisciplinary perspectives combining microfluidics, materials science and technology, electronics, smartphone integration among some of the key pillars of digital and data sciences. The Special issue also welcomes Perspective and Review articles that would guide the readers with a futuristic vision on the advancements of biomolecular diagnostics, targeting specific public health measures towards catering the underserved, with no distinction between consumers having expected variabilities in economic barrier, and in the process 'democratize' disease diagnostics with no differential treatment of the rich and the poor.
Dr. Suman Chakraborty
Prof. Dr. Marc Madou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosensors
- microfluidics
- point of care diagnostics
- micro total analysis system
- lab on a chip
- lateral flow immunoassay
- nucleic acid based testing
- innovations in pcr technology
- community surveillance of infectious disease outbreak
- biosensor platforms for one health
- microfluidics based biosensors interfacing digital technology
- new materials and wearables for molecular diagnostics
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