Rapid and Portable Genetic Identification Kits for World Health Applications

We motivate the need for a rapid and portable genetic identification kit whose design must be fundamentally different from the DNA micro-arrays used in laboratories because of speed, detection sensitivity and facility concerns. A micro/nano bead platform developed in our laboratory with modified PCR and hybridization steps and with tailor-designed microfluidic fabrication techniques is then introduced as a first single-target prototype for rapid field-use genetic diagnostic kit.