A contact-lens-on-a-chip companion diagnostic tool for personalized medicine.

Lab Chip

Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

Published: April 2016

We present a novel, microfluidic platform that integrates human tears (1 μL) with commercial contact lens materials to provide personalized assessment of lens care solution performance. This device enabled the detection of significant differences in cleaning and disinfection outcomes between subjects and between biofilms vs. planktonic bacteria.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6lc00034gDOI Listing

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