Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: droplet microfluidics; cell separation; inertial microfluidics; CTC separation and detection; dielectrophoresis; point-of-care testing (POCT) devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics is a technique for controlling the behavior of fluids or bioparticles in microscale channels or spaces. The advent of microfluidics has provided new insights in the fields of biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. Compared with conventional techniques, microfluidics offers various advantages, such as low sample consumption, high efficiency, small device footprint, multifunction integration, and high manipulation resolution. To date, microfluidics has been employed for a range of biomedical applications, such as efficient sample pretreatment, single-cell analysis, high-throughput microflow cytometry, organ-on-a-chip, and biosensing. As a result, great improvements have been achieved in modern biomedical diagnosis and research. For example, the isolation and detection of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the peripheral blood have served as a noninvasive “virtual and real-time liquid biopsy” and are of great significance for the early diagnosis, personalized treatment, and therapeutic efficacy monitoring of cancers. On the basis of these applications, various point-of-care testing (POCT) devices have been invented, among which some have been successfully commercialized. This Special Issue is devoted to the most recent technical innovations and developments in the area of microfluidics, particularly for biomedical applications.
Scope of the Special Issue:
- Fluid and cell manipulation via microfluidics;
- Novel channel invention for new applications;
- Fabrication methods for new functions;
- Microfluidics-based point-of-care testing (POCT) devices;
- Microfluidics for biotarget sensing and single-cell analysis;
- Application of microfluidics in biomedical applications.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the most recent advances in microfluidics for biomedical applications. Reviews and original research papers are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Nan Xiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- cell manipulation and detection
- point-of-care testing
- lab on a chip
- biomedical applications
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