Microfluidics-Aided Technologies

Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications

Dhananjay Bodas, Virendra Gajbhiye

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323955348
• Subtopic: Biotechnology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Microfluidics-Aided Technologies: Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications aims to provide comprehensive information of microfluidic technologies, their development and biomedical applications. The book provides the fundamentals of microfluidics and addresses the advances and challenges of microfluidic platforms for diagnostics, biological assays, cellular analysis, and drug delivery. Sections introduce micro-scale flow enabled systems, followed by discussions on applications in diagnostics, prognostics, and cellular analysis in the second and third section. The fourth section focuses on breakthroughs in microfluidics like 3D bioprinting, tissue-on-chip, organ-on-chip, and organism-on-chip. The last section provides insights on microfluidics and the study of plants and microbes. This book offers researchers an interdisciplinary perspective towards biological problems. It is a resource for advanced undergraduate, graduate students, researchers and industry scientists interested in the emergence of advance techniques and next generation microfluidics-aided technologies for applications in the biomedical and medical research. - Discusses the development of advanced techniques and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases - Discusses experimental approaches that facilitate the study of various aspects of life sciences - Presents biomaterial design strategies and recent breakthroughs for organ-on chip and organism on chip platforms - Summarize various polymers, techniques and types of microfluidic devices

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 Fundamentals of microfluidics
• Chapter 2 Microfluidic systems in diagnostic and prognostic applications
• Chapter 3 Microfluidics in drug screening and drug delivery
• Chapter 4 Microfluidics assisted cell engineering and manipulation
• Chapter 5 Microfluidic-assisted cell analysis: Molecular assay and biochemical assay
• Chapter 6 Microfluidics in bioimaging: In vitro and in vivo advancements
• Chapter 7 Genetic sequencing and editing using microfluidics: System on chip approach
• Chapter 8 Anaphylactic detection using microfluidic systems
• Chapter 9 Microfluidic systems for bacterial and fungal research
• Chapter 10 Importance of microfluidics in cancer modeling
• Chapter 11 Microfluidics in bioanalytical chemistry
• Chapter 12 Role of microfluidics in 3D bioprinting
• Chapter 13 Tissue-on-chip, organ-on-chip, and organism-on-chip
• Chapter 14 Microfluidics in regenerative medicine
• Chapter 15 Microfluidics in protein engineering
• Index