| Conferences \ Lab-on-a-Chip & Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics & Global Health Asia 2017 \ Agenda \ Victor Ugaz |
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Lab-on-a-Drone: Portable Robust Platforms for Mobile Point-of-Care BioanalysisThursday, 30 November 2017 at 10:00  Add to Calendar ▼2017-11-30 10:00:002017-11-30 11:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Drone: Portable Robust Platforms for Mobile Point-of-Care BioanalysisLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Global Health Asia 2017 in Taipei, TaiwanTaipei, TaiwanSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.comWe describe recent innovations aimed at overcoming many of the roadblocks that have traditionally hindered deployment of advanced biochemical diagnostic technologies in field/resource-limited settings. Nucleic acid-based approaches like the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are generally considered to be diagnostic gold standards in terms of both sensitivity and specificity. But PCR is largely ruled out as a viable candidate for portable deployment, particularly in resource-limited settings, due to an unfavorable combination of excessive electrical power requirements associated with repeated heating and cooling of reagents during thermocycling, and complexities related to inexpensively implementing fluorescence-based detection of the reaction products. We show how a unique convergence of scientific and technological breakthroughs from multiple disciplines have now made it possible to overcome these limitations, laying the foundation for a new generation of simple ruggedized POC diagnostic platforms. |
Add to Calendar ▼2017-11-30 00:00:002017-12-01 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Global Health Asia 2017Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Global Health Asia 2017 in Taipei, TaiwanTaipei, TaiwanSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
