Microfluidics involves handling and processing of extremely small fluid volumes, which are generally in the range of microliters or even picoliters. Microfluidics based systems offer significant advantages such as lower reagent consumption, portability, reduced analysis time, and ability to integrate complex fluidic manipulations on a single microchip. Microfluidics has applications in biomedical research, medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and healthcare.
Microfluidic technology involves the monitoring and handling of fluidics at a sub-millimeter scale level. Microfluidic devices have various applications in clinical diagnostics, point-of-care testing, drug discovery and biosciences research. The technology enables cheap, faster and safer diagnosis of diseases. There is a rising demand for portable diagnostic testing products that can perform multiplexed analyses directly on minute volumes of sample.
