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A magnetic bead-based DNA extraction and purification microfluidic device

Point-of-Care diagnostics of infectious diseases is a dynamic research area and sample preparation is a bottleneck in achieving handheld sample-in-answer-out devices for near patient use. The initial research addressed this challenge and the outcome demonstrates that it is possible to extract pathogenic DNA from whole blood with the required sensitivity and specificity in about four minutes. This work was funded by Venture Capital funding (CASCADE) and paved the way forward to embark on an MRC funded project () in developing an electronic self-testing instrument for sexually transmitted infections (eSTI2) in collaboration with St. Georges Medical School.