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The LabDisk – A Fully Automated Centrifugal Lab-on-a-Chip System for the Detection of Biological Threats

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The world’s growing mobility, mass tourism and the threat of terrorism increase the risk of a fast spread of infectious microorganisms and toxins. Therefore, there is a growing demand for small, mobile, easy to use diagnostic systems for automated detection of those agents directly at the point of need. However, the state of the art for pathogen detection requires complex stationary devices and trained personal limiting the capability for a rapid and effective response. We present an alternative solution to this demand: the LabDisk platform, a portable fully automated Lab-on-a-Chip system which performs complex biochemical analyses at the point of need. We applied the LabDisk platform to an automated nucleic acid analysis for the detection of Bacillus anthracis and Francisella tularensis and to an immunoassay for the detection of ricin.

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  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • immunoassay
  • nucleic acid assay
  • portable point-ofcare devce
  • LabDisk

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  1. HSG-IMIT - Institut für Mikro- und Informationstechnik, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

    Thomas van Oordt, Oliver Strohmeier, Daniel Mark, Roland Zengerle & Felix von Stetten

  2. Laboratory for MEMS Applications, Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Roland Zengerle & Felix von Stetten

  3. BIOSS-Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Universiy of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Roland Zengerle

  4. QIAGEN Lake Constance GmbH, Stockach, Germany

    Michael Eberhard & Josef Drexler

  5. Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany

    Pranav Patel

  6. Department of Virology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Manfred Weidmann

  7. Institute for Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Andrea Zgaga-Griesz & Wolfgang G. Bessler

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück University, Albrechtstr. 28, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany

    Nils Aschenbruck

  2. Fraunhofer FKIE, Neuenahrer Straße 20, 53343, Wachtberg, Germany

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  3. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bonn, 4, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Michael Meier

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van Oordt, T. et al. (2012). The LabDisk – A Fully Automated Centrifugal Lab-on-a-Chip System for the Detection of Biological Threats. In: Aschenbruck, N., Martini, P., Meier, M., Tölle, J. (eds) Future Security. Future Security 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_33

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