Impact of microfluidic systems for molecular and genomic analysis: technological and socio-economic perspectives
by Silvia Petroni, Dino Accoto, Barbara Labella, Giuseppe Turchetti, Eugenio Guglielmelli
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011

Abstract: The last few years witnessed a remarkable development of microsystems for the life sciences. In particular, molecular and genomic analysis techniques underwent a tremendous development. After a focused review on these fields, it will be shown that most of the solutions proposed primarily aim at a higher level of automation for saving costs and time, while reducing the errors that may occur with manual methods. Some socio-economic considerations are also provided to sketch the potential market of such novel devices and a patent overview is presented. A future scenario, enabled by microtechnologies, is eventually provided.

Online publication date: Wed, 21-Jan-2015

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