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Microfluidic Chip Fabrication and Method to Detect Influenza
Published on: March 26, 2013
Lab-on-a-CD: A Fully Integrated Molecular Diagnostic System
Ling X Kong1, Alexandra Perebikovsky2, Jacob Moebius3
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, CA, USA lxkong@uci.edu.
Abstract:
The field of centrifugal microfluidics has experienced tremendous growth during the past 15 years, especially in applications such as lab-on-a-disc (LoD) diagnostics. The strength of LoD systems lies in its potential for development into fully integrated sample-to-answer analysis systems. This review highlights the technologies necessary to develop the next generation of these systems. In addition to outlining valving and other fluid-handling operations, we discuss the recent advances and future outlook in four categories of LoD processes: reagent storage, sample preparation, nucleic acid amplification, and analyte detection strategies.

