Turning the page: advancing paper-based microfluidics for broad diagnostic application

MM Gong, D Sinton - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Infectious diseases are a major global health issue. Diagnosis is a critical first step in
effectively managing their spread. Paper-based microfluidic diagnostics first emerged in …

Microfluidics for sperm analysis and selection

R Nosrati, PJ Graham, B Zhang, J Riordon… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Infertility is a growing global health issue with far-reaching socioeconomic implications. A
downward trend in male fertility highlights the acute need for affordable and accessible …

Advances in sperm analysis: techniques, discoveries and applications

C Dai, Z Zhang, G Shan, LT Chu, Z Huang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Infertility affects one in six couples worldwide, and fertility continues to deteriorate globally,
partly owing to a decline in semen quality. Sperm analysis has a central role in diagnosing …

Advances in microfluidics‐based assisted reproductive technology: From sperm sorter to reproductive system‐on‐a‐chip

N Kashaninejad, MJA Shiddiky… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fields of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) have
progressed rapidly, yet still need further improvements. Microfluidic technology can …

[HTML][HTML] Recent microfluidic innovations for sperm sorting

M Khodamoradi, S Rafizadeh Tafti… - Chemosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sperm selection is a clinical need for guided fertilization in men with low-quality semen. In
this regard, microfluidics can provide an enabling platform for the precise manipulation and …

Quantification of human sperm concentration using machine learning-based spectrophotometry

A Lesani, S Kazemnejad, MM Zand, M Azadi… - Computers in Biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spectrophotometry is an indirect non-invasive and quantitative method for specifying
materials with unknown contents based on absorption behavior. This paper presents the first …

Disposable paper-based microfluidics for fertility testing

MR Sarabi, D Yigci, MM Alseed, BA Mathyk, B Ata… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Fifteen percent of couples of reproductive age suffer from infertility globally and the burden
of infertility disproportionately impacts residents of develo** countries. Assisted …

[HTML][HTML] Lab-on-a-chip technologies for the single cell level: Separation, analysis, and diagnostics

A Hochstetter - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the last three decades, microfluidics and its applications have been on an exponential
rise, including approaches to isolate rare cells and diagnose diseases on the single-cell …

Enhanced sperm isolation via bulk acoustic waves for high-throughput motility screening

Z Saeidpour, M Bouloorchi Tabalvandani… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The increasing infertility rate has become a worrying global challenge in recent years.
According to the report of the World Health Organization, the male factor is responsible for …

Simultaneous enrichment and separation based on ion concentration polarization effect on a paper based analytical device

ZY Wu, YH Wang, BS Niu, Y Yang, F Fang… - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, simultaneous enrichment and separation of ions and amphoteric components
were successfully demonstrated by using electric field (E) and pH gradient (double gradient) …