Laser Machined Plastic Laminates: Towards Portable Diagnostic Devices for Use in Low Resource Environments

Autor: Jason C. Harper, William Arndt, Melissa Finley, Thayne L. Edwards, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Bryan Carson, George D. Bachand
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Electroanalysis. 27:2503-2512
ISSN: 1040-0397
DOI: 10.1002/elan.201500359
Popis: D espite significant progress in development of bioanalytical devices cost, complexity ,a ccess to reagents and lack of infrastructure have prevented use of these technologies in resource-limited regions .T op rovide as us- tainable tool in the global effort to combat infectious dis- eases the diagnostic device must be low cost ,s imple to operat ea nd read ,r obust, and have sensitivity and specif- icit yc omparable to laboratory analysis .I nt his mini- review we describe recent work using laser machined plastic laminates to produce diagnostic devices that are capable of aw ide variety of bioanalytical measurements and show great promise towards future use in low-re- source environments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE