title: [Development of micro/nano devices for cancer diagnosis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Microsystem Research Center, Intelligent Microsystem Center (21stC Frontier Research Program, MOCIE), Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Dae Sung
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Ji Yoon
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Tae Song
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*