Academic Press Microfluidics-Aided Technologies: Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications

Microfluidics-Aided Technologies: Platforms for Next Generation Biological Applications aims to provide comprehensive information of microfluidic technologies, their development and biomedical applications. The book opens with an overview of the fundamentals of microfluidics. It is followed by discussions of methods and biomedical applications of microfluidics in diagnostics, prognostics, cell engineering, gene sequencing, cellular analysis, and bioimaging. The book also explores breakthroughs in microfluidics such as 3D bioprinting, organ-on-chip technologies, and regenerative medicine. 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