Miniaturized and IoT Enabled Continuous-Flow-Based Microfluidic PCR Device for DNA Amplification

Herein, a continuous-flow driven microfluidic device has been designed and fabricated using the CO2 laser ablation method for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The device consists of a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microfluidic channel with 30 serpentine thermal cycles, an arduino board, two custom-made cartridge heaters, and thermocouple sensors. The portable thermal management system, with aluminium blocks placed on a wooden substrate, working on the PID controller principle, is low-cost, battery-powered, automated, integrated, and IoT-enabled. The device with dimensions 80×72×36 mm3 (L × W × H) has a temperature accuracy of ±0.2 °C. The IoT module enables accessing and storage of real-time temperature values directly onto the smartphone through ThingSpeak analytics. It was developed to achieve desirable accurate temperature at two thermal zones, denaturation and annealing (95 °C and 60 °C) on the microfluidic thermal management platform. A PCR mixture of [Formula: see text] was infused into the serpentine-based microchannel using a syringe pump. Amplification of DNA template with 594-base pair (bp) fragment of the rat GAPDH gene was successfully performed on the miniaturized thermal management system. The total time required for a complete PCR reaction was 32 min at an optimum flow rate of [Formula: see text]/min. The amplified sample of the target DNA obtained from the PCR microchannel was then separated by agarose gel electrophoresis and was further analyzed using a gel-doc system. Finally, the obtained results were compared to the conventional PCR instrument showing excellent performance.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

IEEE transactions on nanobioscience - 21(2022), 1 vom: 25. Jan., Seite 97-104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kulkarni, Madhusudan B [VerfasserIn]
Goyal, Srashti [VerfasserIn]
Dhar, Arti [VerfasserIn]
Sriram, D [VerfasserIn]
Goel, Sanket [VerfasserIn]

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9007-49-2
DNA
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 03.01.2022

Date Revised 03.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1109/TNB.2021.3092292

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327179449