Viral detection and quantification in a digital droplet microfluidic lab-in-a-fiber deviceShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Micro-structured and specialty optical fibres VII / [ed] Kalli, K Mendez, A Peterka, P, SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2021, Vol. 11773, article id 117730YConference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In this work, we present the design and fabrication of a fiber device that performs digital droplet microfluidics for molecular diagnostics. A variety of fibers and capillaries were used to build three connected modules dedicated to droplet generation, incubation, and fluorescence detection which enables a uniaxial arrangement. This is in contrast to the traditional 2-dimensional lab-on-a-chip architecture. We characterize our fiber device using a fluorescein dilution series. Our observed detection limit is on the order of 10 nM fluorescein. We demonstrate our all-fiber device for the fluorescence readout after loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) of synthetic SARS-CoV-2. Our results suggest that this fiber device can successfully distinguish between positive and negative samples in molecular diagnostics. We propose that our fiber device offers benefits over microfluidic chip techniques such as easier optical integration, much simpler sample loading, and faster diagnosis with high specificity and sensitivity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2021. Vol. 11773, article id 117730Y
Series
Proceedings of SPIE, ISSN 0277-786X
Keywords [en]
All-fiber device, microfluidics, optofluidics, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), molecular diagnostics, SARS-CoV2
National Category
Biochemistry Molecular Biology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-303179DOI: 10.1117/12.2590850ISI: 000696183900019Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85109212481OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-303179DiVA, id: diva2:1602010
Conference
Conference on Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres VII, APR 19-23, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK
Note
Part of proceedings, ISBN 978-1-5106-4381-9, QC 20230117
2021-10-112021-10-112025-02-20Bibliographically approved