In the past two decades,the biological and medical fields have seen great advances in the development of biosensors and bioehips capable of characterizing and quantifying biomolecules.This lecture is meant to discuss the development and applications of advanced electroanalysis,biophotonics,nanotechnology,MEMS- based biosensors and biochips for biomedical diagnostics and physical performances of athlete.
Based on solid phase extraction method, a novel silicon-PDMS-glass microchip for high purity DNA extraction has been developed by using KI as the binding salt. The microfluidic chip fabricated by MEMS technology was composed of a silicon substrate with a coiled channel and a compounded PDMS-glass cover. With this microfluidic chip, the wall of the coiled channel was used as solid phase matrix for binding DNA and DNA was extracted by the fluxion of the binding buffer, washing buffer and elution buffer. KI as a substitute for guanidine, was used successfully as binding salt for purification DNA, obtaining higher purity of genomic DNA and about 13.9 ng DNA from 1 μL rat whole blood in 35 minutes.
