ELISA-On-a-Chip Measures Proteins in Tiny Samples to Improve Disease Diag**stics
 

ELISA-On-a-Chip Measures Proteins in Tiny Samples to Improve Disease Diag**stics
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Immu**assays have been central to biomedical research and clinical diag**stics, but their use requires large sample volumes as well as*expensive equipment and reagents to perform the tests. Microfluidic device have the potential to overcome these challenges, and a number of devices have been built that offer parallel processing, high sensitivity using small sample volumes, or the ability to screen for a wide number of markers. **ne have been able to have all three capabilities in one system, truly making microfluidics a viable option over traditional equipment.

[IMG]http://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/diag**stic-lab-on-a-chip.jpg[/IMG]**w researchers at Rutgers University are reporting the development of a lab-on-a-chip device that can parallel process 32 samples as small as*4.2 L using readily available reagents to measure six different proteins at the same time. The device is called “ELISA-on-a-chip,” and the researchers hope one of the early uses of the tech**logy will be to analyze cerebrospinal fluid since it holds clues about various underlying conditions but large samples of it are hard to get.

Study in journal*Lab on a Chip: Development and validation of a microfluidic immu**assay capable of multiplexing parallel samples in microliter volumes…

Source: Rutgers…

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