[Development of micro/nano devices for cancer diagnosis].
In order to rapidly detect and analyze the presence of a target ligand of interests in environmental or industrial fluids as well as biological samples, numerous test systems have been designed and developed, which have been based on the combination of a test reagent and absorbing paper or membrane. The main limitations of these conventional devices are the difficulty of quantitative or semi-quantitative detection and poor detection limit (around nanogram/ml range detection capability). In this paper, new approaches and research trends which use nano/MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) technology is introduced, which has a concept of fast, precise, and massive diagnosis and analysis of target molecules using very small amount of samples.
Yoon
Dae Sung
DS
Microsystem Research Center, Intelligent Microsystem Center (21stC Frontier Research Program, MOCIE), Seoul, Korea.
Kang
Ji Yoon
JY
Kim
Tae Song
TS
D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*