title: Microfluidics: an emerging technology for food and health science.
abstract: Microfluidics is an emerging technology with the potential to streamline workflows and processes in the food and health sciences. Because of extreme miniaturization, less reagent consumption and more efficient sample-to-answer protocols are not only attainable but in many cases demonstrated. In this article, we present some key examples of relevant research at the Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center that has direct applications in food, environmental, and physiological health monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus Center, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA. gisela@uci.edu
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Abraham P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D005524:Food Technology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical