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The Dropletisation of Bio-Reactions

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Microdroplet Technology

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Molecular diagnostics is a continually evolving scientific discipline, which is based on the study of medical symptoms and conditions, and is applied in every aspect of healthcare delivery [1] and is inextricably linked to prognosis and therapy. Increasingly the output from molecular diagnostics testing is related to specific therapy, and clinical medicine is being transformed by molecular pathology that will make predictive and personalised medicine possible. To maximise impact, modern molecular diagnostics is highly translational, sharing different aspects of clinical practice with disciplines such as point of care instrumentation developments and microfluidics, combined with biophysics and computational fluid dynamics [2].

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    Ehsan Karimiani, Amelia Markey & Philip Day

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  3. Dept. Mechan. & Aerospace Eng., University of Strathclyde, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow, G1 1XJ, United Kingdom

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Karimiani, E., Markey, A., Day, P. (2012). The Dropletisation of Bio-Reactions. In: Day, P., Manz, A., Zhang, Y. (eds) Microdroplet Technology. Integrated Analytical Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3265-4_6

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