TY - GEN
T1 - Microfluidics and personalised medicine
AU - Davies, Mark
AU - Dalton, Tara
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Personalized medicine is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of many of the most prominent and dangerous diseases. By analyzing a patient or population's genome, transcriptome or proteome, complete patient profiling is possible. For the engineer the key issue is to process the biomolecules so that they can be read into an electronic transducer. From then modern computing methods are sufficient to process and analyze the data. Microfluidics will be the key technology in overcoming the present bottleneck, providing a high throughput, low cost method to presenting molecular data to the transducer.
AB - Personalized medicine is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of many of the most prominent and dangerous diseases. By analyzing a patient or population's genome, transcriptome or proteome, complete patient profiling is possible. For the engineer the key issue is to process the biomolecules so that they can be read into an electronic transducer. From then modern computing methods are sufficient to process and analyze the data. Microfluidics will be the key technology in overcoming the present bottleneck, providing a high throughput, low cost method to presenting molecular data to the transducer.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33846949383&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/icnmm2006-96015
DO - 10.1115/icnmm2006-96015
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846949383
SN - 0791847608
SN - 9780791847602
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2006
SP - 1221
EP - 1226
BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2006
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2006
Y2 - 19 June 2006 through 21 June 2006
ER -