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Microfluidics:A Boon for Biological Research


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1 Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, India
2 Department of Biotechnology, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru 560 054, India
 

Microfluidics is an emerging new interdisciplinary field that deals with the manipulation of fluids at the microscale and nanoscale. Having its origins in other areas of science and technology, microfluidics is slowly beginning to make radical changes in various fields of biological sciences. The exclusivity of fluid behaviour at the microscale offers a large number of advantages in biological research such as miniaturization of assays, faster sample processing and rapid detection. This article provides a concise overview of the applications of microfluidics technology in some of the major disciplines of biological research. Furthermore, it also mentions the hurdles that microfluidics is facing and the solutions that are envisaged for the future to make it a widely available, reliable and cost-effective technology.

Keywords

Biological Research, Lab-On-A-Chip, Microfluidics, Microchannels.
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Karthik Mahesh
Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, India
Sravanti Vaidya
Department of Biotechnology, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru 560 054, India

Abstract


Microfluidics is an emerging new interdisciplinary field that deals with the manipulation of fluids at the microscale and nanoscale. Having its origins in other areas of science and technology, microfluidics is slowly beginning to make radical changes in various fields of biological sciences. The exclusivity of fluid behaviour at the microscale offers a large number of advantages in biological research such as miniaturization of assays, faster sample processing and rapid detection. This article provides a concise overview of the applications of microfluidics technology in some of the major disciplines of biological research. Furthermore, it also mentions the hurdles that microfluidics is facing and the solutions that are envisaged for the future to make it a widely available, reliable and cost-effective technology.

Keywords


Biological Research, Lab-On-A-Chip, Microfluidics, Microchannels.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi10%2F2021-2028