Title:Current Advances and Applications of Diagnostic Microfluidic Chip: A
Review
Volume: 19
Issue: 6
Author(s): Garima Katyal, Anuj Pathak*, Parul Grover and Vaibhav Sharma
Affiliation:
- KIET School of Pharmacy, KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR Ghaziabad, 201206, Uttar Pradesh, India
Keywords:
Microfluidic chip, biochip, quantitative measurement, bioanalytical procedures, biomedical applications, microchannels.
Abstract:
Background: As a developed technology, microfluidics now offers a great toolkit for handling
and manipulating suspended samples, fluid samples, and particles. A regular chip is different
from a microfluidic chip. A microfluidic chip is made of a series of grooves or microchannels carved
on various materials. This arrangement of microchannels contained within the microfluidic chip is
connected to the outside by inputs and outputs passing through the chip.
Objectives: This review includes the current progress in the field of microfluidic chips, their advantages
and their biomedical applications in diagnosis.
Methods: The various manuscripts were collected in the field of microfluidic chip that have biomedical
applications from the different sources like Pubmed,Science direct and Google Scholar, out of
which some were relevant and considered for the present manuscript.
Results: Microfluidic channels inside the chip allow for the processing of the fluid, such as blending
and physicochemical reactions. Aside from its practical, technological, and physical benefits, microscale
fluidic circuits also improve researchers' capacity to do more accurate quantitative measurements
while researching biological systems. Microfluidic chips, a developing type of biochip, were
primarily focused on miniaturising analytical procedures, especially to enhance analyte separation.
Since then, the procedures for device construction and operation have gotten much simpler.
Conclusion: For bioanalytical operations, microfluidic technology has many advantages. As originally
intended, a micro total analysis system might be built using microfluidic devices to integrate
various functional modules (or operational units) onto a single platform. More researchers were able
to design, produce, and use microfluidic devices because of increased accessibility, which quickly
demonstrated the probability of wide-ranging applicability in all branches of biology.