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Lab-On-A-Chip Technology in Health Care

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MEMS and Microfluidics in Healthcare

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In the current era when early disease diagnosis is a need of the hour for the proper cure, LOC devices are the most reliable and promising solution. Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices are used for point-of-care diagnostics as they are compact, cost-effective, integrable, and multiple diagnostics can be performed on a single chip. For this reason, there are different diagnostic techniques used for LOC devices such as optical detection, PCR, qPCR, paper-based assays, and lab-on-a-chip using microfluidic platforms. The main focus of the aforesaid technique is the simplification of device design with multiplexed processes and the availability of automation to make LOC devices user-friendly. In this chapter, different techniques and processes are discussed which are used in diagnostic and healthcare applications.

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    Neha Mishra

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    K. Srinivasa Rao

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Mishra, N. (2023). Lab-On-A-Chip Technology in Health Care. In: Guha, K., Dutta, G., Biswas, A., Srinivasa Rao, K. (eds) MEMS and Microfluidics in Healthcare. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 989. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8714-4_2

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