Biomaterials have played an enormous role in the success of medical devices and drug
delivery systems. We discuss here new challenges and directions in biomaterials research …

Harnessing the ability to precisely and reproducibly actuate fluids and manipulate
bioparticles such as DNA, cells, and molecules at the microscale, microfluidics is a powerful …

An updated literature survey identified 1,407 recognized species of human pathogen, 58%
of which are zoonotic. Of the total, 177 are regarded as emerging or reemerging. Zoonotic …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

After having reviewed some aspects of microfluidic system preparation in the first part (1), in
this second part of the review we will cover a number of standard operations (namely …

Chemiluminescence (CL) is an important method for quantification and analysis of various
macromolecules. A wide range of CL agents such as luminol, hydrogen peroxide …

Recent progress in the laboratory has been a result of improvements in rapid analytical
techniques. An update of the applications of lateral flow tests (also called …

Biosensors are a very active research field. They have the potential to lead to low-cost,
rapid, sensitive, reproducible, and miniaturized bioanalytical devices, which exploit the high …

In recent years, the biological and biomedical applications of micro-and nanotechnology
(commonly referred to as Biomedical or Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems …

Conventional DNA microarray hybridization relies on diffusion of target to surface-bound
probes, and thus is a rate-limited process. In this paper, a micromixing technique based on …