title: System Integration - A Major Step toward Lab on a Chip.
abstract: Microfluidics holds great promise to revolutionize various areas of biological engineering, such as single cell analysis, environmental monitoring, regenerative medicine, and point-of-care diagnostics. Despite the fact that intensive efforts have been devoted into the field in the past decades, microfluidics has not yet been adopted widely. It is increasingly realized that an effective system integration strategy that is low cost and broadly applicable to various biological engineering situations is required to fully realize the potential of microfluidics. In this article, we review several promising system integration approaches for microfluidics and discuss their advantages, limitations, and applications. Future advancements of these microfluidic strategies will lead toward translational lab-on-a-chip systems for a wide spectrum of biological engineering applications.
authors: Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. pak@email.arizona.edu.
authors: Mandy Ly
authors: ML
authors: Sin
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Gao
authors: Joseph C
authors: JC
authors: Liao
authors: Pak Kin
authors: PK
authors: Wong
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