Smart biosensors for multiplexed and fully integrated point-of-care diagnostics
A Romeo1, T S Leung1, S Sánchez2
1Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Baldiri Reixac, 10-12, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. ssanchez@ibecbarcelona.eu.
Lab on a Chip
|May 6, 2016
Abstract:
Point-of-care diagnostics (PoC) and personalised medicine are highly valuable for the improvement of world health. Smartphone PoC platforms which precisely diagnose diseases and track their development through the detection of several bioanalytes represent one of the newest and most exciting advancements towards mass-screening applications. Here we focus on recent advances in both multiplexed and smartphone integrated PoC sensors.
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