However, there is a big communication gap between biologists and micro-
technologists; it is because of the lack of training in the fields other than theirs.
Presented book is a very good platform to understand the basic of BioMEMS,
fundamental science associated with BioMEMS, materials science in BioMEMS,
nanotechnology in BioMEMS, scale-up fabrication of BioMEMS, role of
BioMEMS in cell biology, contribution of BioMEMS in health care devices, and
development of chip-based approach for diagnosis, especially point-of-care
systems.
Overall, this document is call to researchers to explore BioMEMS more to make
state-of-the-art more effective and efficient. According to the diagnostics require-
ment, BioMEMS architecture can be modified via changing design and adopting
novel nanomaterials. Such investigated and proposed BioMEMS could be useful in
the field of cell and molecular biology, single cell biology, disease diagnostics, and
introduced all the commercially available systems that has been either introduced or
have the potential of being get used in research and development. To make possible,
government agencies, national laboratory, universities and industries should pay
more attention and manage more budget to establish BioMEMS fabrication center
along with the introduction of more basic coursed to produce engineers. This
approach certainly will help to establish BioMEMS based start-up companies.
This will reduce the cost of fabrication and increase BioMEMS availability.
The proposed book explored the need of novel microtechnologies, their integra-
tion strategies for developing new class of assay systems to retrieve the desired
health information of patient in real-time. To achieve accomplishments, the selec-
tion of each sensor components and operational parameters of desired property is
very crucial to develop an efficient sensing platform to capable of performing at
POC. System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Diagnostic-on-a-Chip (DoC), and Lab-on-a-chip
(LOC) are the core to the next generation bioanalytical sciences; therefore, this
book will help biologists to understand these systems and will allow them to make
educated decisions on selecting the nature and type of microtechnologies that suits
best to their methods thus enhancing the rate of translational research in the field.
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