Automation of a Multiplexed Microbead-based DNA Assay Platform
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Microbead-based diagnostic technology has been explored in academia for over 30 years. As the technology matured, it became clear that this was a competitive platform for multiplexed pointof-care diagnostics for a number of different applications spanning from healthcare, border defense, food safety and environmental monitoring. To realize the benefits of this technology to Canada and the rest of the world, it is imperative to develop an automation scheme to enable minimally trained users to be able to leverage this technology in a point-of-care setting where there is no access to a full lab, and often without reliable water or electricity. This thesis aims to leverage the use of microfluidics and magnetism to enable a simple way of automating the microbead platform for this purpose.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015