Lab-on-a-chip devices for global health: past studies and future opportunities.

By C. Chin, V. Linder, Samuel K. Sia. Lab on a Chip, 2007

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A rapidly emerging field in lab-on-a-chip (LOC) research is the development of devices to improve the health of people in developing countries. In this review, we identify diseases that are most in need of new health technologies, discuss special design criteria for LOC devices to be deployed in a variety of resource-poor settings, and review past research into LOC devices for global health. We focus mainly on diagnostics, the nearest-term application in this field.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering

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Advances in paper-based point-of-care diagnostics. (2014, background): “For example, microfluidic devices, coupled with different functional units (e.g., pumps, valves and reactors) and integrated into a miniaturized analytical system (Chin et al., 2007; Hawkins and Weigl, 2010), can manipulate small volumes of fluids (Whitesides, 2006).”
Point-of-care microfluidic devices for pathogen detection (2018, background): “, 2004) and cross-linked gelatin (Ertl et al., 2004; Chin et al., 2007) can be used as a skeleton for the microfluidic device.”
Microneedle technologies for (trans)dermal drug and vaccine delivery. (2012, background): “the delivery of insulin accordingly [1-3, 21, 22, 42, 155].”
Microfluidics for cell separation (2010, background): “Microfluidics presents a functional tool-set for cell separation offering numerous advantages including, (i) reduced sample and expensive reagent volumes; (ii) fast sample processing, reducing analysis time; (iii) high sensitivity and spatial resolution, increasing detection accuracy; (iv) integrate”
Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments (2016, background): “On the other hand, understanding how to control the motion of artificial active particles through their interaction with complex environments could prove beneficial also for applications, e.g. inside lab-on-a-chip devices or living organisms (Chin et al., 2007).”
Three-dimensional microfluidic devices fabricated in layered paper and tape (2008, background): “, dipsticks and lateral f low systems) (2, 6).”
Point-of-care diagnostics for global health. (2008, background): “The use of microfluidics for blood analysis was recently reviewed in this journal (105), and there has also been a recent review of lab-on-a-chip devices for global health applications (2).”