Microfluidics-Aided Technologies: Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications

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. Microfluidics-Aided Technologies: Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications is divided into five sections. The first section introduces 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. Microfluidics-Aided Technologies 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 advance techniques and methods for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases Discusses experimental approaches that facilitate study of various aspects of life sciences Presents biomaterial design strategies and recent breakthroughs for organ-on chip, organism on chip platforms Summarize various polymers, techniques, and types of microfluidic devices INDICE: Section 1: Introduction to Micro-scale flow enabled systems 1. Fundamentals of Microfluidics 2. Mathematical modelling in microfluidics for biosystems 3. Breakthroughs and Current Limitations in microfluidic systems Section 2: Methods and Applications of Microfluidics - I 4. Microfluidic Systems in Prognostics and Diagnostics 5. Microfluidics in drug screening and drug delivery 6. Microfluidics assisted cell engineering and manipulation 7. Microfluidics assisted Cellular Analysis 8. Microfluidics in Bioimaging - in vivo and in vitro advancements Section 3: Methods and Applications of Microfluidics - II 9. Genetic sequencing and editing using microfluidics (system on chip approach) 10. Anaphylactic detection using microfluidic systems 11. Microfluidic systems for bacterial and fungal research 12. Microfluidics in studying disease biology and disease modelling in vitro 13. Microfluidics in bioanalytical chemistry Section 4: Breakthroughs in Microfluidics 14. Role of Microfluidics in 3D bioprinting 15. Tissue-on-Chip, Organ-on-chip and Organism-on-chip 16. Microfluidics in Regenerative medicine 17. Microfluidics in Protein engineering 18. Microfluidics-enabled Multi-omics analysis system Section 5: Microfluidics and its applications in Microbe and Plant study 19. Microfluidics assisted study of plant biomechanics 20. Plant-on-chip (root chips, shoot chips, apical chips) 21. Microfluidic device to study the effect of chemical and mechanical cues on cells 22. Investigating diatoms in a microenvironment using microfluidics

• ISBN: 978-0-323-95533-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés