MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR HUMAN HEAL

by Robert Langer (Editor), Utkan Demirci (Editor), Ali Khademhosseini (Editor), Jeffrey Blander (Editor)

Overview

The field of microfluidics has in the last decade permeated many disciplines, from physics to biology and chemistry, and from bioengineering to medical research. One of the most important applications of lab-on-a-chip devices in medicine and related disciplines is disease diagnostics, which involves steps from biological sample/analyte loading to storage, detection, and analysis. The chapters collected in this book detail recent advances in these processes using microfluidic devices and systems. The reviews of portable devices for diagnostic purposes are likely to evoke interest and raise new research questions in interdisciplinary fields (e.g., efficient MEMS/microfluidic engineering driven by biological and medical applications).The variety of the selected topics (general relevance of microfluidics in medical and bioengineering research, fabrication, advances in on-chip sample detection and analysis, and specific disease models) ensures that each of them can be viewed in the larger context of microfluidic-mediated diagnostics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814405539
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
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Table of Contents

Preface vii

List of Contributors ix

Chapter 1 A Microscale Bioinspircd Cochlear-like Sensor Robert D. White Robert Littrell Karl Grosh 1

Chapter 2 Systematic Evaluation of the Efficiencies of Proteins and Chemicals in Pharmaceutical Applications Morgan Hamon Jong Wook Hong 21

Chapter 3 Microfluidic Glucose Sensors Jithesh V. Veetil Sruthi Ravindranathan Sha Jin Kaiming Ye 47

Chapter 4 Applications of Microfabrication and Microfluidic Techniques in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research Abhijit Majumder Jyotsna Dhawan Oren Levy Jeffrey M. Karp 69

Chapter 5 Patient-Specific Modeling of Low-Density Lipoprotein Transport in Coronary Arteries Ufuk Olgac 97

Chapter 6 Point-of-Care Microdeviccs for Global Health Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases San Yin Chin Tassaneewan Laksanasopin Curtis D. Chin Samuel K. Sia 115

Chapter 7 Integrated Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Chip-based Molecular Diagnostics Jane Y. Zhang Qingqing Cao Madhumita Mahalanabis Catherine Klapperich 135

Chapter 8 Microfluidic Devices for Cellular Proteomic Studies Yihong Zhan Chang Lu 161

Chapter 9 Microfluidics for Neuroscience: Novel Tools and Future Implications Vivian M. Hernandez P. Hande Özdinler 185

Chapter 10 Microfluidics: On-Chip Platforms as In Vitro Disease Models Shan Gao Erkin Seker Martin L. Yarmush 213

Chapter 11 Application of Microfluidics in Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Sasha H. Bakhru Christopher Highley Stefan Zappe 241

Chapter 12 Microfluidic "On-the-Fly" Fabrication of Microstructures for Biomedical Applications Edward Kang Sau Fung Wong Sang-Hoon Lee 293

Chapter 13 Microfluidics as a Promising Tool Toward Distributed Viral Detection Elodie Sollier Dino Di Carlo 311

Chapter 14 Electrophoresis and Dielectrophoresis for Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) Analyses Yagmur Demircan Gürkan Yilmaz Haluk Külah 341

Chapter 15 Ultrasonic Embossing of Carbon Nanotubes for the Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Chips for DNA Sample Purification Puttachat Khuntontong Min Gong Zhiping Wang 377

Chapter 16 Ferrofluidics A. Rezzan Kose Hur Koser 391

Chapter 17 Antibody-based Blood Bioparticle Capture and Separation Using Microfluidics for Global Health ZhengYuan Luo ShuQi Wang Utkan Demirci TianJian Lu Feng Xu BoFeng Bai 417

Chapter 18 Applications of Quantum Dots for Fluorescence Imaging in Biomedical Research ShuQi Wang Matin Esfahani Dusan Sarenac Bettina Cheung Aishwarya Vasudevan Fatih Inci Utkan Demirci 451

Biographies of the Editors 471

Index 475