Microfluidics for Hematology
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2019) | Viewed by 213
Special Issue Editor
Interests: blood handling microfluidics; platelet biology; haemocompatible microfluidics; thrombosis and haemostasis; platelet function tests; point-of-care blood analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ability to develop integrated, automated, high-content hematology screening tools coupled to sensitive bioassays in whole blood is key to the development of more targeted anti-thrombotic and coagulation therapies, and more reliable laboratory based and point-of-care clinical diagnostic systems. Furhermore, there is a significant driver for effective analytical systems that facilitates the control of and recapitulates the blood flow mechanics (hemodynamics) that are key to determining both physiological and pathological blood functions in thrombosis and hemostasis. Microfluidic systems have the potential to meet all of the requirements for low volume, rapid, automated blood and blood component handling; however, the development of such platforms is in its infancy, and significant research and development is required to translate such systems to the clinic.
Accordingly, this Special Issue will focus on microfluidic-based platforms for the experimental investigation of thrombosis and hemostasis, and the development of new microfluidic clinical diagnostics, both at the laboartory scale and point-of-care.
Dr. Warwick S. Nesbitt
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hematology
- Thrombosis
- Hemostasis
- Lab-on-Chip
- Microlfuidic
- Point-of-care
