Sirris and MEDVIA are working together on Medical Diagnostics Goes Micro and Smart, a Vlaio-funded research-to-industry tech transfer project. Sirris has produced a series of articles on microfluidics to help industry better understand what it can provide to them.

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Microfluidics – the manipulation of fluids at micro-scale – offer considerable advantages, such as a significant reduction in the volumes of samples, reagents and waste. Unique chemical and physical functions, derived from this scale, open the way to innovative applications. Designing a microfluidic component involves several key design stages, which we outline in this second article on microfluidics in industry.

Microfluidics make it possible to perform a large number of complex functions, while reducing costs and experimentation time, and ensuring precise control of the conditions under which they are implemented. Microfluidics offer great robustness, high potential for automation and remarkable ease of use.

Its applications are varied, from rapid diagnostic medical devices to the creation of organs-on-a-chip, not forgetting dedicated kits for quality control in the field or any type of sample preparation (as we’ve already discussed in our previous article).

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Article 1: Microfluidics – How an entire lab procedss fits on a bank card
https://staging.medvia.be/microfluidics-how-an-entire-lab-process-fits-on-a-bank-card/

Article 3: Manufacturing and prototyping techniques for polymer-based microfluidic chips
https://www.sirris.be/en/inspiration/manufacturing-and-prototyping-techniques-polymer-based-microfluidic-chips-brief

Article 4: Computer vision used for detection of fluid front in microfluidic chip
https://www.sirris.be/en/inspiration/computer-vision-used-detection-fluid-front-microfluidic-chip-part-4

Article 5: Closing event of project Medical Diagnostics Goes Micro and Smart
https://www.sirris.be/en/inspiratie/slotevent-project-medical-diagnostics-goes-micro-and-smart

Article 6: Lab-on-a-chip detection techniques
https://www.sirris.be/en/inspiration/lab-chip-detection-techniques-part-6

Article 7: Temperature control in miniaturised devices for fast medical diagnostics
https://www.sirris.be/en/inspiration/temperature-control-miniaturised-devices-fast-medical-diagnostics-part-7