title: Advances in transfusion medicine in the first decade of the 21st century: Advances in miniaturized technologies.
abstract: Several miniaturized high throughput technologies have been developed in the last decade, primarily to study genomic structures and gene expression patterns under various conditions. At the same time, the microarrays, biosensors, integrated microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices, next generation sequencing or digital PCR are gradually finding their diagnostic applications, although their suitability for specialised diagnostic fields has still to be assessed. In this review we discuss the potential applications of the new technologies to blood testing.
authors.affiliation: Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, UK. juraj.petrik@nhs.net
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petrik
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coste
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fournier-Wirth
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation; D008904:Miniaturization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013672:Technology