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Emaminejad S, Javanmard M, Dutton RW, Davis RW. Smart surface for elution of protein-protein bound particles: nanonewton dielectrophoretic forces using atomic layer deposited oxides. Anal Chem 2012; 84:10793-801. [PMID: 23176521 PMCID: PMC4984534 DOI: 10.1021/ac302857z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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By increasing the strength of the negative dielectrophoresis force, we demonstrated a significantly improved electrokinetic actuation and switching microsystem that can be used to elute specifically bound beads from the surface. In this work using atomic layer deposition we deposited a pinhole free nanometer-scale thin film oxide as a protective layer to prevent electrodes from corrosion, when applying high voltages (>20 V(pp)) at the electrodes. Then, by exciting the electrodes at high frequency, we capacitively coupled the electrodes to the buffer in order to avoid electric field degradation and, hence, reduction in dielectrophoresis force due to the presence of the insulating oxide layer. To illustrate the functionality of our system, we demonstrated 100% detachment of anti-IgG and IgG bound beads (which is on the same order of magnitude in strength as typical antibody-antigen interactions) from the surface, upon applying the improved negative dielectrophoresis force. The significantly enhanced switching performance presented in this work shows orders of magnitude of improvement in on-to-off ratio and switching response time, without any need for chemical eluting agents, as compared to the previous work. The promising results from this work vindicates that the functionality of this singleplexed platform can be extended to perform a multiplexed bead-based assay where in a single channel an array of proteins are patterned each targeting a different antigen or protein.
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- Sam Emaminejad
- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford, California 94304, United States
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94304, United States
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford, California 94304, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94304, United States
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford, California 94304, United States
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Zhu Q, Gao Y, Yu B, Ren H, Qiu L, Han S, Jin W, Jin Q, Mu Y. Self-priming compartmentalization digital LAMP for point-of-care. LAB ON A CHIP 2012; 12:4755-63. [PMID: 22986619 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40774d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Digital nucleic acid amplification provides unprecedented opportunities for absolute nucleic acid quantification by counting of single molecules. This technique is useful for molecular genetic analysis in cancer, stem cell, bacterial, non-invasive prenatal diagnosis in which many biologists are interested. This paper describes a self-priming compartmentalization (SPC) microfluidic chip platform for performing digital loop-mediated amplification (LAMP). The energy for the pumping is pre-stored in the degassed bulk PDMS by exploiting the high gas solubility of PDMS; therefore, no additional structures other than channels and reservoirs are required. The sample and oil are sequentially sucked into the channels, and the pressure difference of gas dissolved in PDMS allows sample self-compartmentalization without the need for further chip manipulation such as with pneumatic microvalves and control systems, and so on. The SPC digital LAMP chip can be used like a 384-well plate, so, the world-to-chip fluidic interconnections are avoided. The microfluidic chip contains 4 separate panels, each panel contains 1200 independent 6 nL chambers and can be used to detect 4 samples simultaneously. Digital LAMP on the microfluidic chip was tested quantitatively by using β-actin DNA from humans. The self-priming compartmentalization behavior is roughly predictable using a two-dimensional model. The uniformity of compartmentalization was analyzed by fluorescent intensity and fraction of volume. The results showed that the feasibility and flexibility of the microfluidic chip platform for amplifying single nucleic acid molecules in different chambers made by diluting and distributing sample solutions. The SPC chip has the potential to meet the requirements of a general laboratory: power-free, valve-free, operating at isothermal temperature, inexpensive, sensitive, economizing labour time and reagents. The disposable analytical devices with appropriate air-tight packaging should be useful for point-of-care, and enabling it to become one of the common tools for biology research, especially, in point-of-care testing.
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- Qiangyuan Zhu
- Research Center for Analytical Instrumentation, Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
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Arata H, Komatsu H, Hosokawa K, Maeda M. Rapid and sensitive microRNA detection with laminar flow-assisted dendritic amplification on power-free microfluidic chip. PLoS One 2012; 7:e48329. [PMID: 23144864 PMCID: PMC3492330 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Detection of microRNAs, small noncoding single-stranded RNAs, is one of the key topics in the new generation of cancer research because cancer in the human body can be detected or even classified by microRNA detection. This report shows rapid and sensitive microRNA detection using a power-free microfluidic device, which is driven by degassed poly(dimethylsiloxane), thus eliminating the need for an external power supply. MicroRNA is detected by sandwich hybridization, and the signal is amplified by laminar flow-assisted dendritic amplification. This method allows us to detect microRNA of specific sequences at a limit of detection of 0.5 pM from a 0.5 µL sample solution with a detection time of 20 min. Together with the advantages of self-reliance of this device, this method might contribute substantially to future point-of-care early-stage cancer diagnosis.
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- Bioengineering Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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Mavandadi S, Dimitrov S, Feng S, Yu F, Yu R, Sikora U, Ozcan A. Crowd-sourced BioGames: managing the big data problem for next-generation lab-on-a-chip platforms. LAB ON A CHIP 2012; 12:4102-6. [PMID: 22918378 PMCID: PMC3477593 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40614d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We describe a crowd-sourcing based solution for handling large quantities of data that are created by e.g., emerging digital imaging and sensing devices, including next generation lab-on-a-chip platforms. We show that in cases where the diagnosis is a binary decision (e.g., positive vs. negative, or infected vs. uninfected), it is possible to make accurate diagnosis by crowd-sourcing the raw data (e.g., microscopic images of specimens/cells) using entertaining digital games (i.e., ) that are played on PCs, tablets or mobile phones. We report the results and the analysis of a large-scale public experiment toward diagnosis of malaria infected human red blood cells (RBCs), where binary responses from approximately 1000 untrained individuals from more than 60 different countries are combined together (corresponding to more than 1 million cell diagnoses), resulting in an accuracy level that is comparable to those of expert medical professionals. This platform holds promise toward cost-effective and accurate tele-pathology, improved training of medical personnel, and can also be used to manage the "Big Data" problem that is emerging through next generation digital lab-on-a-chip devices.
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- Sam Mavandadi
- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Tung YC, Huang NT, Oh BR, Patra B, Pan CC, Qiu T, Paul KC, Zhang W, Kurabayashi K. Optofluidic detection for cellular phenotyping. LAB ON A CHIP 2012; 12:3552-65. [PMID: 22854915 PMCID: PMC3815588 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40509a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Quantitative analysis of the output of processes and molecular interactions within a single cell is highly critical to the advancement of accurate disease screening and personalized medicine. Optical detection is one of the most broadly adapted measurement methods in biological and clinical assays and serves cellular phenotyping. Recently, microfluidics has obtained increasing attention due to several advantages, such as small sample and reagent volumes, very high throughput, and accurate flow control in the spatial and temporal domains. Optofluidics, which is the attempt to integrate optics with microfluidics, shows great promise to enable on-chip phenotypic measurements with high precision, sensitivity, specificity, and simplicity. This paper reviews the most recent developments of optofluidic technologies for cellular phenotyping optical detection.
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- Yi-Chung Tung
- Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, 123 Sec. 2, Academia Rd. Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, MI 48109, USA
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- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, 123 Sec. 2, Academia Rd. Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjin 211189, China
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave. Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai 2000433, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, MI 48109, USA
- Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsensing and Systems (WIMS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Smith ZJ, Chu K, Wachsmann-Hogiu S. Nanometer-scale sizing accuracy of particle suspensions on an unmodified cell phone using elastic light scattering. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46030. [PMID: 23056228 PMCID: PMC3462810 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report on the construction of a Fourier plane imaging system attached to a cell phone. By illuminating particle suspensions with a collimated beam from an inexpensive diode laser, angularly resolved scattering patterns are imaged by the phone's camera. Analyzing these patterns with Mie theory results in predictions of size distributions of the particles in suspension. Despite using consumer grade electronics, we extracted size distributions of sphere suspensions with better than 20 nm accuracy in determining the mean size. We also show results from milk, yeast, and blood cells. Performing these measurements on a portable device presents opportunities for field-testing of food quality, process monitoring, and medical diagnosis.
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- Zachary J. Smith
- Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America
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- Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America
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- Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America
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Mavandadi S, Feng S, Yu F, Dimitrov S, Yu R, Ozcan A. BioGames: A Platform for Crowd-Sourced Biomedical Image Analysis and Telediagnosis. Games Health J 2012; 1:373-376. [PMID: 23724363 DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2012.0054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We have recently proposed a mathematical framework for crowd-sourcing of biomedical image analysis and diagnosis through digital gaming. Here we review our recent progress on this gaming platform and demonstrate its viability for telediagnosis of malaria, achieving an accuracy that is within less than 2 percent of that of a trained expert.
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- Sam Mavandadi
- Electrical Engineering Department University of California, Los Angeles, California ; Bioengineering Department University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Isikman SO, Greenbaum A, Luo W, Coskun AF, Ozcan A. Giga-pixel lensfree holographic microscopy and tomography using color image sensors. PLoS One 2012; 7:e45044. [PMID: 22984606 PMCID: PMC3440383 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We report Giga-pixel lensfree holographic microscopy and tomography using color sensor-arrays such as CMOS imagers that exhibit Bayer color filter patterns. Without physically removing these color filters coated on the sensor chip, we synthesize pixel super-resolved lensfree holograms, which are then reconstructed to achieve ∼350 nm lateral resolution, corresponding to a numerical aperture of ∼0.8, across a field-of-view of ∼20.5 mm2. This constitutes a digital image with ∼0.7 Billion effective pixels in both amplitude and phase channels (i.e., ∼1.4 Giga-pixels total). Furthermore, by changing the illumination angle (e.g., ±50°) and scanning a partially-coherent light source across two orthogonal axes, super-resolved images of the same specimen from different viewing angles are created, which are then digitally combined to synthesize tomographic images of the object. Using this dual-axis lensfree tomographic imager running on a color sensor-chip, we achieve a 3D spatial resolution of ∼0.35 µm×0.35 µm×∼2 µm, in x, y and z, respectively, creating an effective voxel size of ∼0.03 µm3 across a sample volume of ∼5 mm3, which is equivalent to >150 Billion voxels. We demonstrate the proof-of-concept of this lensfree optical tomographic microscopy platform on a color CMOS image sensor by creating tomograms of micro-particles as well as a wild-type C. elegans nematode.
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- Serhan O. Isikman
- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Bioengineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Kayani AA, Khoshmanesh K, Ward SA, Mitchell A, Kalantar-Zadeh K. Optofluidics incorporating actively controlled micro- and nano-particles. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2012; 6:31501. [PMID: 23864925 PMCID: PMC3411552 DOI: 10.1063/1.4736796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/25/2012] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The advent of optofluidic systems incorporating suspended particles has resulted in the emergence of novel applications. Such systems operate based on the fact that suspended particles can be manipulated using well-appointed active forces, and their motions, locations and local concentrations can be controlled. These forces can be exerted on both individual and clusters of particles. Having the capability to manipulate suspended particles gives users the ability for tuning the physical and, to some extent, the chemical properties of the suspension media, which addresses the needs of various advanced optofluidic systems. Additionally, the incorporation of particles results in the realization of novel optofluidic solutions used for creating optical components and sensing platforms. In this review, we present different types of active forces that are used for particle manipulations and the resulting optofluidic systems incorporating them. These systems include optical components, optofluidic detection and analysis platforms, plasmonics and Raman systems, thermal and energy related systems, and platforms specifically incorporating biological particles. We conclude the review with a discussion of future perspectives, which are expected to further advance this rapidly growing field.
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- Aminuddin A Kayani
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
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Chen YF, Jiang L, Mancuso M, Jain A, Oncescu V, Erickson D. Optofluidic opportunities in global health, food, water and energy. NANOSCALE 2012; 4:4839-57. [PMID: 22763418 DOI: 10.1039/c2nr30859b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Optofluidics is a rapidly advancing field that utilizes the integration of optics and microfluidics to provide a number of novel functionalities in microsystems. In this review, we discuss how this approach can potentially be applied to address some of the greatest challenges facing both the developing and developed world, including healthcare, food shortages, malnutrition, water purification, and energy. While medical diagnostics has received most of the attention to date, here we show that some other areas can also potentially benefit from optofluidic technology. Whenever possible we briefly describe how microsystems are currently used to address these problems and then explain why and how optofluidics can provide better solutions. The focus of the article is on the applications of optofluidic techniques in low-resource settings, but we also emphasize that some of these techniques, such as those related to food production, food safety assessment, nutrition monitoring, and energy production, could be very useful in well-developed areas as well.
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- Yih-Fan Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan.
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Mudanyali O, Dimitrov S, Sikora U, Padmanabhan S, Navruz I, Ozcan A. Integrated rapid-diagnostic-test reader platform on a cellphone. LAB ON A CHIP 2012; 12:2678-86. [PMID: 22596243 PMCID: PMC3390446 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40235a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We demonstrate a cellphone-based rapid-diagnostic-test (RDT) reader platform that can work with various lateral flow immuno-chromatographic assays and similar tests to sense the presence of a target analyte in a sample. This compact and cost-effective digital RDT reader, weighing only ~65 g, mechanically attaches to the existing camera unit of a cellphone, where various types of RDTs can be inserted to be imaged in reflection or transmission modes under light-emitting diode (LED)-based illumination. Captured raw images of these tests are then digitally processed (within less than 0.2 s per image) through a smart application running on the cellphone for validation of the RDT, as well as for automated reading of its diagnostic result. The same smart application then transmits the resulting data, together with the RDT images and other related information (e.g., demographic data), to a central server, which presents the diagnostic results on a world map through geo-tagging. This dynamic spatio-temporal map of various RDT results can then be viewed and shared using internet browsers or through the same cellphone application. We tested this platform using malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV RDTs by installing it on both Android-based smartphones and an iPhone. Providing real-time spatio-temporal statistics for the prevalence of various infectious diseases, this smart RDT reader platform running on cellphones might assist healthcare professionals and policymakers to track emerging epidemics worldwide and help epidemic preparedness.
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- Onur Mudanyali
- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Luo Y, Hossain M, Wang C, Qiao Y, Ma L, Su M. On-chip radiation biodosimetry with three-dimensional microtissues. Analyst 2012; 137:3441-4. [PMID: 22701873 DOI: 10.1039/c2an35046g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This paper reports an image-based, on-chip microtissue radiation biodosimeter that can simultaneously monitor radiation responses of multiple mammalian cell types. The microtissue chip is fabricated by molding molten agarose gel onto microfabricated patterns to form microwells, and seeding a variety of cell suspensions into different microwells inside the agarose gel. The camera of a mobile phone is used to collect images of an array of microtissues, and the color changes of microtissues upon X-ray irradiation allow accurate determination of cell death, which is related to radiation dose. The images can be transferred wirelessly, allowing the biodosimeter to be used for convenient and field deployable monitoring of radiation exposure.
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- Yang Luo
- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA
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We report a cell-phone based Escherichia coli (E. coli) detection platform for screening of liquid samples. In this compact and cost-effective design attached to a cell-phone, we utilize anti-E. coli O157:H7 antibody functionalized glass capillaries as solid substrates to perform a quantum dot based sandwich assay for specific detection of E. coli O157:H7 in liquid samples. Using battery-powered inexpensive light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) we excite/pump these labelled E. coli particles captured on the capillary surface, where the emission from the quantum dots is then imaged using the cell-phone camera unit through an additional lens that is inserted between the capillary and the cell-phone. By quantifying the fluorescent light emission from each capillary tube, the concentration of E. coli in the sample is determined. We experimentally confirmed the detection limit of this cell-phone based fluorescent imaging and sensing platform as ∼5 to 10 cfu mL(-1) in buffer solution. We also tested the specificity of this E. coli detection platform by spiking samples with different species (e.g., Salmonella) to confirm that non-specific binding/detection is negligible. We further demonstrated the proof-of-concept of our approach in a complex food matrix, e.g., fat-free milk, where a similar detection limit of ∼5 to 10 cfu mL(-1) was achieved despite challenges associated with the density of proteins that exist in milk. Our results reveal the promising potential of this cell-phone enabled field-portable and cost-effective E. coli detection platform for e.g., screening of water and food samples even in resource limited environments. The presented platform can also be applicable to other pathogens of interest through the use of different antibodies.
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- Hongying Zhu
- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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By 2025, when most of today’s psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet will be using ultra-broadband, sensor-rich smartphones far beyond the abilities of today’s iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries. Although smartphones were not designed for psychological research, they can collect vast amounts of ecologically valid data, easily and quickly, from large global samples. If participants download the right “psych apps,” smartphones can record where they are, what they are doing, and what they can see and hear and can run interactive surveys, tests, and experiments through touch screens and wireless connections to nearby screens, headsets, biosensors, and other peripherals. This article reviews previous behavioral research using mobile electronic devices, outlines what smartphones can do now and will be able to do in the near future, explains how a smartphone study could work practically given current technology (e.g., in studying ovulatory cycle effects on women’s sexuality), discusses some limitations and challenges of smartphone research, and compares smartphones to other research methods. Smartphone research will require new skills in app development and data analysis and will raise tough new ethical issues, but smartphones could transform psychology even more profoundly than PCs and brain imaging did.
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Distributed medical image analysis and diagnosis through crowd-sourced games: a malaria case study. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37245. [PMID: 22606353 PMCID: PMC3350488 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2012] [Accepted: 04/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In this work we investigate whether the innate visual recognition and learning capabilities of untrained humans can be used in conducting reliable microscopic analysis of biomedical samples toward diagnosis. For this purpose, we designed entertaining digital games that are interfaced with artificial learning and processing back-ends to demonstrate that in the case of binary medical diagnostics decisions (e.g., infected vs. uninfected), with the use of crowd-sourced games it is possible to approach the accuracy of medical experts in making such diagnoses. Specifically, using non-expert gamers we report diagnosis of malaria infected red blood cells with an accuracy that is within 1.25% of the diagnostics decisions made by a trained medical professional.
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Schaefer S, Boehm SA, Chau KJ. Automated, portable, low-cost bright-field and fluorescence microscope with autofocus and autoscanning capabilities. APPLIED OPTICS 2012; 51:2581-8. [PMID: 22614477 DOI: 10.1364/ao.51.002581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Optical microscopy is a simple, yet essential, imaging technology. Conventional laboratory-grade optical microscopes are bulky and costly, confining their use to within laboratory settings and restricting their accessibility in regions of limited resources. With the aim of overcoming these limitations, we have realized a portable, low-cost, and highly automated optical microscope that integrates mass-manufactured components, including light-emitting diodes, a web camera, optical disk drives, and a microcontroller. Our implementation is capable of bright-field and fluorescence imaging with micrometer-scale resolution and controlled mechanical actuation of both the lens and sample. We interface the lighting, image capture, and mechanical actuators of the microscope into a single software environment, enabling automation of common microscope operations, such as image focusing and large-area sample visualization. Combination of mechanical actuation and software automation into a compact, low-cost microscope system is an important initial step toward the goal of making optical microscopy universally accessible, portable, and easy to use.
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- Samuel Schaefer
- School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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For more than a decade, it has been expected that microfluidic technology would revolutionize the healthcare industry with simple, inexpensive, effective, and ubiquitous miniature diagnostic devices. To date, however, microfluidics has not yet been able to live up to these expectations. This fact has led to the recent development of new philosophies and methodologies for microfluidic diagnostics. In this Focus article, we will discuss some of the latest breakthroughs that could significantly impact medical diagnostics in the developing world.
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- Xiaole Mao
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Wessels JT, Pliquett U, Wouters FS. Light-emitting diodes in modern microscopy--from David to Goliath? Cytometry A 2012; 81:188-97. [PMID: 22290727 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2011] [Revised: 01/04/2012] [Accepted: 01/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Proper illumination is essential for light microscopy. Whereas in early years incandescent light was the only illumination, today, more and more specialized light sources, such as lasers or arc lamps are used. Because of the high efficiency and brightness that light-emitting diodes (LED) have reached today, they have become a serious alternative for almost all kinds of illumination in light microscopy. LED have a high durability, do not need expensive electronics, and they can be switched in nanoseconds. Besides this, they are available throughout the UV/Vis/NIR-spectrum with a narrow bandwidth. This makes them ideal light sources for fluorescence microscopy. The white LED, with a color temperature ranging from 2,600 up to 5,000 K is an excellent choice for bright-field illumination with the additional advantage of simple brightness adjustments without changing the spectrum. This review discusses the different LED types, their use in the fluorescence microscope, and discusses LED as specialized illumination sources for Förster resonance energy transfer and fluorescent lifetime imaging microscopy.
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- Johannes T Wessels
- Central Core Facility Molecular & Optical Live Cell Imaging (MOLCI), University Medicine Göttingen, Germany.
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Arata H, Komatsu H, Han A, Hosokawa K, Maeda M. Rapid microRNA detection using power-free microfluidic chip: coaxial stacking effect enhances the sandwich hybridization. Analyst 2012; 137:3234-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c2an16154k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Robinson T, Dittrich PS. Microfluidic technology for molecular diagnostics. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2012; 133:89-114. [PMID: 22864841 DOI: 10.1007/10_2012_139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Molecular diagnostics have helped to improve the lives of millions of patients worldwide by allowing clinicians to diagnose patients earlier as well as providing better ongoing therapies. Point-of-care (POC) testing can bring these laboratory-based techniques to the patient in a home setting or to remote settings in the developing world. However, despite substantial progress in the field, there still remain many challenges. Progress in molecular diagnostics has benefitted greatly from microfluidic technology. This chapter aims to summarise the more recent advances in microfluidic-based molecular diagnostics. Sections include an introduction to microfluidic technology, the challenges of molecular diagnostics, how microfluidic advances are working to solve these issues, some alternative design approaches, and detection within these systems.
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- Tom Robinson
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Balsam J, Bruck HA, Kostov Y, Rasooly A. Image stacking approach to increase sensitivity of fluorescence detection using a low cost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) webcam. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. B, CHEMICAL 2012; 171-172:141-147. [PMID: 23990697 PMCID: PMC3752898 DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Optical technologies are important for biological analysis. Current biomedical optical analyses rely on high-cost, high-sensitivity optical detectors such as photomultipliers, avalanched photodiodes or cooled CCD cameras. In contrast, Webcams, mobile phones and other popular consumer electronics use lower-sensitivity, lower-cost optical components such as photodiodes or CMOS sensors. In order for consumer electronics devices, such as webcams, to be useful for biomedical analysis, they must have increased sensitivity. We combined two strategies to increase the sensitivity of CMOS-based fluorescence detector. We captured hundreds of low sensitivity images using a Webcam in video mode, instead of a single image typically used in cooled CCD devices.We then used a computational approach consisting of an image stacking algorithm to remove the noise by combining all of the images into a single image. While video mode is widely used for dynamic scene imaging (e.g. movies or time-lapse photography), it is not used to capture a single static image, which removes noise and increases sensitivity by more than thirty fold. The portable, battery-operated Webcam-based fluorometer system developed here consists of five modules: (1) a low cost CMOS Webcam to monitor light emission, (2) a plate to perform assays, (3) filters and multi-wavelength LED illuminator for fluorophore excitation, (4) a portable computer to acquire and analyze images, and (5) image stacking software for image enhancement. The samples consisted of various concentrations of fluorescein, ranging from 30 μM to 1000 μM, in a 36-well miniature plate. In the single frame mode, the fluorometer's limit-of-detection (LOD) for fluorescein is ∼1000 μM, which is relatively insensitive. However, when used in video mode combined with image stacking enhancement, the LOD is dramatically reduced to 30 μM, sensitivity which is similar to that of state-of-the-art ELISA plate photomultiplier-based readers. Numerous medical diagnostics assays rely on optical and fluorescence readers. Our novel combination of detection technologies, which is new to biodetection may enable the development of new low cost optical detectors based on an inexpensive Webcam (<$10). It has the potential to form the basis for high sensitivity, low cost medical diagnostics in resource-poor settings.
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- Joshua Balsam
- Division of Biology, Office of Science and Engineering, FDA, Silver Spring, MD 20993, United States
- University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), College Park, MD 20742, United States
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- University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), College Park, MD 20742, United States
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- Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD 21250, United States
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- Division of Biology, Office of Science and Engineering, FDA, Silver Spring, MD 20993, United States
- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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