Special Issue: Microscale Medical Devices

The medical device industry increasingly relies on complex microfluidic, microelectromechanical, and nanoelectromechanical devices as part of modern clinical treatments and diagnostic testing. The benefits of using microdevices are faster results and lower costs. Fundamental and translational research in microscale medical devices has exploded and is rapidly moving toward commercialization in the device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life science industries. Applications for microscale devices include drug discovery, cell growth, disease studies, diagnostics, biologic sensing, mixing, filtration, and many others. For example, organ-on-a chip devices have recently been developed that mimic the biologic and physiologic properties of living systems and can be used for early evaluation of new drugs or devices, as well as to study disease state. Likewise, lab-on-a-chip systems that use microsamples of blood are revolutionizing the diagnostic testing industry.
Source: Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME - Category: Medical Devices Source Type: research