Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Third Annual Conference on Lab-on-a-Chip and Microarrays
- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Pharmacogenomics
- Vol. 2 (1) , 73-77
- https://doi.org/10.1517/14622416.2.1.73
Abstract
Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Third Annual Conference on Lab-on-a-Chip and Microarray technology covered the latest advances in this technology and applications in life sciences. Highlights of the meetings are reported briefly with emphasis on applications in genomics, drug discovery and molecular diagnostics. There was an emphasis on microfluidics because of the wide applications in laboratory and drug discovery. The lab-on-a-chip provides the facilities of a complete laboratory in a hand-held miniature device. Several microarray systems have been used for hybridisation and detection techniques. Oligonucleotide scanning arrays provide a versatile tool for the analysis of nucleic acid interactions and provide a platform for improving the array-based methods for investigation of antisense therapeutics. A method for analysing combinatorial DNA arrays using oligonucleotide-modified gold nanoparticle probes and a conventional scanner has considerable potential in molecular diagnostics. Various applications...Keywords
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