Development and Applications of Portable Biosensors

摘要: The significance of microfluidics-based and microelectromechanical systems-based biosensors has been widely acknowledged, many reviews have explored their potential applications in clinical diagnostics, personalized medicine, global health, drug discovery, food safety, forensics. Because health care costs are increasing, there is an increasing need to remotely monitor the condition patients by point-of-care-testing. demand for detection biological warfare agents increased, research focused on ways producing small portable devices that would allow fast, accurate, on-site detection. In past decade, rapid accurate plant disease diagnosis increased due emerging pathogens with resistance pesticides, human mobility, regulations limiting application toxic chemicals prevent spread diseases. portability limited various issues, including sample preparation techniques, fluid-handling lifetime reagents, device packaging, integrating electronics data collection/analysis, requirement external accessories power. Many microfluidic, electronic, design strategies, such as handling liquids without pumps/valves, droplet-based microfluidics, paper-based microfluidic devices, wireless networking capabilities transmission, being explored.