Point-of-care diagnostics for noncommunicable diseases using synthetic urinary biomarkers and paper microfluidics

With noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now constituting the majority of global mortality, there is a growing need for low-cost, noninvasive methods to diagnose and treat this class of diseases, especially in resource-limited settings. Molecular biomarkers combined with low-cost point-of-care assays co...

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Main Authors: Warren, Andrew David (Contributor), Kwong, Gabriel A. (Contributor), Wood, David K. (Author), Lin, Kevin Yu-Ming (Contributor), Bhatia, Sangeeta N. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2014-11-04T15:12:38Z.
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