Application of Micro-Fluidics in Biological World

Abstract

Micro-fluidics is new, evolving, multi-disciplinary field that works with handling of fluids at very small volumes (micro to nanoscale). Microfluidics has already been used in other fields of sciences and now progressing towards various domains of biological sciences to make fundamental changes. The uniqueness of using fluid at such small scale suggests uncountable benefits in research of biological sciences including, instantaneous processing of sample, assay’s miniaturization and expeditious detection. This review discusses the micro-fluidic technology applications in few of the major research discipline of biological sciences including diagnostics, neurosciences, environment, forensics, pharmaceutical industry, toxicology etc. It also indicates some limitations that must be envisioned for its wide use in future.