A High Yield, High Purity Microfluidic Device For Potential Application of Blood Plasma Generation

Abstract

Cancer biomarkers circulating in blood can be monitored for diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. For this purpose, the whole blood from cancer patients needs to be analyzed. The microfluidic device developed in the current work has been analyzed with for plasma separation purposes with help of beads (to mimic the blood cells). These devices can be implemented in the future studies to tackle the challenge of separating the blood plasma from its other components with high efficiency and purity when working with patients' whole blood.