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Microfluidics enabled a wide variety of disciplines with its applications by implying mechanical, optical, chemical, and electrical and bio-interfacial principles. Recent advances in micro- and nanofabrication make possible to implicate the microfluidics in chemical assays, electronic systems, diagnostics approaches, single-cell analysis, and pharmaceutics. Portability, low sample or reagent volumes, biocompatibility, tissue engineering are some of the advantages that attracted the biologists to imply the microfluidics for biological applications.

Sustainability cannot be achieved with natural reproductive methods in livestock production. Demand driven livestock growth necessitated the research towards the assisted reproductive technology (ART) for multiplication of animals at a much faster pace. Existing ART methods need to be improved with the help of interdisciplinary approaches. Miniaturized devices attracted the reproductive biologists due to their ease in handling of single cells and small sample volumes. Use of microfluidics in animal reproduction may revolutionize the assisted reproductive techniques in the near future.

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Yata, V.K. (2021). Introduction. In: Microfluidics for Assisted Reproduction in Animals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4876-9_1

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