A combination of low cost manufacturing, integrated sample preparation and ICT components to develop In Vitro Devices

摘要

There is an urgent need to provide portable diagnostic tools to ensure rapid, affordable and simple analysis in many scenarios of our society (hospitals, airports, doctor's practice, roadside police controls, and natural environment). Currently, portable devices are based on low sensitive immunochromatographic strips or low sensitive electrochemical detection systems, whereas desktop systems are sensitive and automatic but bulky, heavy and expensive. Hence, owing to the new advances in polymer microfabrication and its synergy with Information Communication Technologies (ICT), this paper will show how is possible to prioritise and combine integrated sample preparation, low cost manufacture and ICT devices. This combination creates an intelligent and portable system across many sectors for efficient health treatment, high productivity food processing and secure environment monitoring.