Microfluidic Chips as Point-of-Care Testing for Develop Diagnostic Microdevices

Rapid, specific, and reliable diagnostic tests in portable, easy-to-apply systems are of great importance for medical diagnosis, especially in emergencies such as pandemic outbreaks or in environments where resources are scarce. Point-of-care testing platforms are ideal for these purposes, providing fast and timely accurate results. Interest in laboratory-on-a-chip devices has grown rapidly in recent years. Innovative microfluidic devices that have gone through the technology development process have demonstrated the potential to perform unimaginable analyzes using traditional techniques. Advances in the microfluidics chip field have sparked innovative upheavals in various biomedical fields, such as single-cell detection, diagnostic methods, and micro- and nano-size-product manufacturing. Microfluidic chips currently play an important role in multiple biological technologies. Microfluidics have been shown to offer a number of benefits over existing conventional methods, thanks to improved controllability and precision. In this chapter, the authors discussed how point-of-care tests, developed by the integration of numerous nanomaterials into microfluidic chips, play an active role in the diagnosis and diagnosis of many diseases and their potential biomedical applications.