by
Debjani Paul(Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay)
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Europe/Stockholm
NORDITA West Seminar room
NORDITA West Seminar room
Description
There is a strong need for affordable and accurate disease detection
in developing countries like India in order to provide good quality
healthcare to the population. Microfluidics can help in miniaturizing
diagnostic platforms so that these can be transported directly to the
patient’s bedside (i.e. at the point-of-care) from clinical laboratories.
These systems are portable and battery-operated, provide quick results
and consume much less patient sample compared to the bench-top systems
currently in use. In our lab we are working on diagnostic platforms that
are inexpensive, can be operated without continuous electrical power or
clinical supervision and can be stored without refrigeration for use in
remote and rural parts of India. With this goal in mind we are focusing
on cheap substrates and fabrication technologies. In my talk I will
describe our attempts at developing a paper-based platform for detection
of infectious diseases and a plastic cell sorting device for identifying
fetal cells from maternal blood.