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Industrial Stage 6 THE MICROFLUIDIC TOOLBOX - MODULAR APPROACHES FOR INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDICS Presenter: Holger Becker, CSO Time: Monday 28 October, 15:15 - 15:30 microfluidic ChipShop GmbH Stockholmer Str. 20 Jena, D-07747 GERMANY phone: +49-364-134-7050 fax: +49-364-1347-0590 email: info@microfluidic-chipshop.com www.microfluidic-Chipshop.com Microfluidics has made the critical step towards a true enabling technology for product developments in Medicine and the Life Sciences. A modular toolbox approach allows a rapid and risk-minimized approach towards the development of complex microfluidic devices needed for applications e.g. in molecular diagnostics, food or pathogen analysis. For practically all new products under development in these fields, microfluidics plays an important enabling role. The ability to integrate complete analytical/diagnostic assays on a single device is hereby the decisive advantage. In order to facilitate the implementation of the often complex functionality of e.g. molecular diagnostic protocols onto microfluidic platforms, we have developed a modular toolbox system which contains functional modules of often used steps such as lysis, DNA extraction, amplification, metering, valveing or detection. These modules have common footprints and can be freely combined, enabling the rapid performance of proof-of-concept experiments as well as simple protocol troubleshooting. Subsequent integration of the validated functionalities into a single integrated cartridge defines the end-point of such a microfluidics development. |
