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Self-powered integrated microfluidic point-of-care low-cost enabling (SIMPLE) chip

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, March 2017
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2 blogs
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71 tweeters
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4 Facebook pages

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Title
Self-powered integrated microfluidic point-of-care low-cost enabling (SIMPLE) chip
Published in
Science Advances, March 2017
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.1501645
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Authors

Erh-Chia Yeh, Chi-Cheng Fu, Lucy Hu, Rohan Thakur, Jeffrey Feng, Luke P. Lee

Abstract

Portable, low-cost, and quantitative nucleic acid detection is desirable for point-of-care diagnostics; however, current polymerase chain reaction testing often requires time-consuming multiple steps and costly equipment. We report an integrated microfluidic diagnostic device capable of on-site quantitative nucleic acid detection directly from the blood without separate sample preparation steps. First, we prepatterned the amplification initiator [magnesium acetate (MgOAc)] on the chip to enable digital nucleic acid amplification. Second, a simplified sample preparation step is demonstrated, where the plasma is separated autonomously into 224 microwells (100 nl per well) without any hemolysis. Furthermore, self-powered microfluidic pumping without any external pumps, controllers, or power sources is accomplished by an integrated vacuum battery on the chip. This simple chip allows rapid quantitative digital nucleic acid detection directly from human blood samples (10 to 10(5) copies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus DNA per microliter, ~30 min, via isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification). These autonomous, portable, lab-on-chip technologies provide promising foundations for future low-cost molecular diagnostic assays.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 409 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 92 22%
Researcher 74 18%
Student > Bachelor 43 11%
Student > Master 40 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 7%
Other 54 13%
Unknown 79 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 118 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 56 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 29 7%
Chemistry 28 7%
Materials Science 15 4%
Other 61 15%
Unknown 102 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2023.
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#459,726
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#3,260
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Outputs of similar age from Science Advances
#71
of 168 outputs
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