Wednesday, October 25, 2017
A biomedical device based on Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) technology that can fit in the palm of your hand can provide home-testing to help diagnose different diseases.
Carolyn Ren, a Canada Research Chair in Droplet Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technology, as well as director of the Waterloo Microfluidics Lab is leading a team with expertise in physics, engineering and biochemistry to better understand how to create technology that transports, mixes and analyzes tiny amounts of material.
Using the platform to create a home-use, pre-screening medical device could be a major step in reducing the burden on traditional labs. With fewer exploratory samples to test, labs would be able to diagnose patients faster.