Download or read book Microfluidics-Aided Technologies written by Dhananjay Bodas and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-11-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Sections introduce 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. This book 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 advanced techniques and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases - Discusses experimental approaches that facilitate the study of various aspects of life sciences - Presents biomaterial design strategies and recent breakthroughs for organ-on chip and organism on chip platforms - Summarize various polymers, techniques and types of microfluidic devices