What Are Some Applications in Bioanalytical Sciences?
Microfluidic devices have a wide range of applications in bioanalytical sciences:
- Clinical Diagnostics: These devices can be used for point-of-care testing, enabling rapid diagnosis of diseases from a small sample of blood or other bodily fluids. - Drug Development: High-throughput screening in drug discovery can be streamlined using microfluidic platforms. - Genomics and Proteomics: Microfluidic devices are employed for DNA sequencing, PCR, and protein analysis, providing high sensitivity and specificity. - Environmental Monitoring: They can detect contaminants in water or air samples with high precision.
