Engineering long shelf life multilayer biologically active surfaces on microfluidic devices for point of care applications
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2016Author
Asghar, Waseem
Yuksekkaya, Mehmet
Shafiee, Hadi
Zhang, Michael
Ozen, Mehmet O.
Inci, Fatih
Kocakulak, Mustafa
Demirci, Utkan
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Although materials and engineered surfaces are broadly utilized in creating assays and devices with wide applications in diagnostics, preservation of these immuno-functionalized surfaces on microfluidic devices remains a significant challenge to create reliable repeatable assays that would facilitate patient care in resource-constrained settings at the point-of-care (POC), where reliable electricity and refrigeration are lacking. To address this challenge, we present an innovative approach to stabilize surfaces on-chip with multiple layers of immunochemistry. The functionality of microfluidic devices using the presented method is evaluated at room temperature for up to 6-month shelf life. We integrated the preserved microfluidic devices with a lensless complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging platform to count CD4(+) T cells from a drop of unprocessed whole blood targeting applications at the POC such as HIV management and monitoring. The developed immunochemistry stabilization method can potentially be applied broadly to other diagnostic immunoassays such as viral load measurements, chemotherapy monitoring, and biomarker detection for cancer patients at the POC.