Disposable Biochip Cartridge for Clinical Diagnostics Toward Point-of-Care Systems

This paper presents a prototype disposable biochip cartridge and biochip analyzer for clinical diagnostics toward point-of-care systems. The prototype disposable biochip, which has been fully micromachined using plastic micro-injection molding, is presented and demonstrated for analysis of human blood sample with the prototype biochip analyzer. With the developed prototype biochip cartridge and analyser, PO2 (partial oxygen pressure concentration) and glucose level in human blood sample have been successfully measured in less than a minute.