2016 Volume 55 Issue 1 Pages 58-63
Several diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders, cancers, and lifestyle diseases represent typical diseases of aging society with fewer children in japan. These diseases cause the growth of medical spending. To obviate the risk of these diseases, rapid, high-sensitive, and cost effective medical diagnostics devices have been desired. However, conventional medical diagnostics devices have several disadvantages such as long assay time, sophisticated liquid handling procedure. To overcome these disadvantages, we have been developing and novel optical medical diagnostics devices based on “printable photonics technology”. Based on printable photonics technology, we could have achieved to develop the rapid, high-sensitive, and cost effective medical diagnostics devices.
