Towards integrated, autonomous and low-cost diagnostics at the point-of-care from whole blood to answer

• The growing popularity of smartphones has been allowing new opportunities towards the development of low-cost and integrated point-of-care diagnostic platforms. Here, we combine (1) the capabilities of smartphones as both imaging devices and power sources; (2) centrifugal microfluidic devices and; (3) our recently reported microdispenser technology allowing reagent storage, dispensing and blood-plasma separation, to pave the way towards cost-effective and portable point-of-care devices with potential to meet the ASSURED criteria outlined by the World Health Organization.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Centrifugal microfluidics

Liquid storage

Point-of-care

Smartphone

Cost effectiveness

Costs

Smartphones

Blood-plasma separation

Cost effective

Imaging device

Micro-dispenser

Point of care

Point of care diagnostic

World Health Organization

Blood

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