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Low-Cost Microdevices for Point-of-Care Testing

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Point-of-Care Diagnostics on a Chip

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Microdevices enable clinical diagnostics to be miniaturized for use at the point-of-care (POC). Microdevices can be composed of microfilters, microchannels, microarrays, micropumps, microvalves, and microelectronics, and these mechanical and electrical components can be integrated onto chips to analyze and control biological objects at the microscale. The miniaturization of diagnostic tests offers many advantages over centralized laboratory testing, such as small reagent volumes, rapid analysis, small size, low power consumption, parallel analysis, and functional integration of multiple devices. Here, we review work on the development of microdevices to diagnose disease at POC settings.

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Chin, C.D., Chin, S.Y., Laksanasopin, T., Sia, S.K. (2013). Low-Cost Microdevices for Point-of-Care Testing. In: Issadore, D., Westervelt, R. (eds) Point-of-Care Diagnostics on a Chip. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29268-2_1

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