Development of Micro/Nano Devices for Cancer Diagnosis.
- Author:
Dae Sung YOON
1
;
Ji Yoon KANG
;
Tae Song KIM
Author Information
1. Microsystem Research Center, Intelligent Microsystem Center (21stC Frontier Research Program, MOCIE), Seoul, Korea. tskim@kist.re.k
- Publication Type:Review ; English Abstract
- Keywords:
Cancer diagnostics;
Micro electro mechanical systems;
Nano technology;
Detection technology
- MeSH:
Electronics, Medical/*instrumentation;
Humans;
Nanotechnology/*instrumentation;
Neoplasms/*diagnosis
- From:The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
2007;49(5):280-286
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
In order to rapidly detect and analyze the presence of a target ligand of interests in environmental or industrial fluids as well as biological samples, numerous test systems have been designed and developed, which have been based on the combination of a test reagent and absorbing paper or membrane. The main limitations of these conventional devices are the difficulty of quantitative or semi-quantitative detection and poor detection limit (around nanogram/ml range detection capability). In this paper, new approaches and research trends which use nano/MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) technology is introduced, which has a concept of fast, precise, and massive diagnosis and analysis of target molecules using very small amount of samples.
