Albert van den Berg – Microfluidics for Medical Applications

Автор: Albert van den Berg
Название книги: Microfluidics for Medical Applications
Формат: PDF
Тема: Медицина
Страницы: 323
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Ever since the beginning of the research in the lab on chip (LOC) field, people have been searching for the ‘‘killer app’’. 1 Unfortunately, unlike a field such as microelectronics, where Moore’s law for memories and processors has driven the development or, rather, set the agenda, over several decades, in the LOC area no such big application has been identified so far. Rather a very diversified field of applications has emerged over time, with areas such as LOC for analytical chemistry, 2 drug development, 3 cell biology, 4 DNA sequencing and analysis, 5 chemical microreactors, 6 and medical applications. 7 Of all these, probably still the highest expectations are found in the latter area. This area is still emerging as indicated by the numerous scientific journals that publish articles relevant to this field, such as Lab on a Chip, Analytical Chemistry, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Biomedical Microdevices, Biomicrofluidics and Integrative Biology. Every week a lot of exiting new research is published, aiming to be applied for innovative medical devices, treatments, or diagnostics. While it is impossible to show all work performed in this field, with this volume we try to give an overview and perspective of this research field. Therefore we give an overview of the state of-the-art given by a collection of world-wide top-level researchers, with contribution in three different, recently emerged subareas of this field: tissue and organs on chip, microfluidic tools for medicine, and point of care diagnostics.