Microfluidic Biosensing Technologies for Point-of-Care Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Microfluidics has grown significantly since the birth of the field in the 1980s and has already revolutionized a variety of medical industry sectors. The explosive growth of start-up companies in the field, combined with the entry of industrial giants into the microfluidic area, has also led to the growth of the microfluidic market over the past few years. Despite this, the field remains young, growing, and evolving.

Microfluidics involves the science and technology surrounding the manipulation of fluids at the micro- or nano-scale. What microfluidics offers is simple yet highly beneficial: nanoliter-scale fluid consumption with minimal operation times. Standard laboratory procedures such as pipetting, mixing, centrifugation, and incubation require expensive and bulky equipment, large amounts of consumables, and high-maintenance laboratories while being relatively slow processes. Integrated microfluidic biosensing platforms would not only offer sample and reagent reduction, but also faster reaction times, higher sensitivity, and overall cost reduction compared to standard laboratory equipment. Importantly, such systems also have the capacity for parallelization, high throughput analysis, and real-time control and monitoring, which altogether help to broaden the possibilities for applications in clinical diagnostics.

Recent developments in microfluidics have helped researchers working in industries and educational institutes to adopt some of these platforms for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics. This Biosensors Special Issue aims to collate the latest advancements in the fields of microfluidic biosensing technologies and present challenges, possible solutions, and successful demonstrations related to the translation of this technology for POC diagnostic applications. We also wish to disseminate details of the variety of fabrication techniques required for developing microfluidic-integrated biosensors intended for use in POC diagnostics in the medical industry.

You are cordially invited to submit research papers, short communications, and review articles to this Special Issue in Biosensors titled “Microfluidic Biosensor Platform Development for Point-of-Care Applications”.

Dr. Muhsincan Sesen
Dr. John McGrath
Dr. Ameya Vaidya
Dr. Pouya Rezai
Guest Editors

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