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Along with the development of science and technology, there are more and more detecting methods in clinic. Microfluidic chip is one of them. Microfluidic chip, a technique to control tiny amounts of liquid, has fast development in the past two or three decades. It has already been applied to detect nucleic acid, proteins, cell culture, cell selection and drug screening, and so on. It provides us an accurate, high throughput, and easy integrated platform for biomarker detection and research.

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Fang, X. (2021). Microfluidic Chip. In: Pan, S., Tang, J. (eds) Clinical Molecular Diagnostics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1037-0_26

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