Bioengineering / Biyomühendislik

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    Citation - WoS: 15
    Citation - Scopus: 16
    Electromechanical Rt-Lamp Device for Portable Sars-Cov Detection
    (Elsevier, 2023) Tarım, Ergün Alperay; Öksüz, Cemre; Karakuzu, Betül; Appak, Özgür; Sayıner, Ayça Arzu; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Rapid point-of-care tests for infectious diseases are essential, especially in pandemic conditions. We have developed a point-of-care electromechanical device to detect SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA using the reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) principle. The developed device can detect SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA down to 103 copies/mL and from a low amount of sample volumes (2 μL) in less than an hour of standalone operation without the need for professional labor and equipment. Integrated Peltier elements in the device keep the sample at a constant temperature, and an integrated camera allows automated monitoring of LAMP reaction in a stirring sample by using colorimetric analysis of unfocused sample images in the hue/saturation/value color space. This palm-fitting, portable and low-cost device does not require a fully focused sample image for analysis, and the operation could be stopped automatically through image analysis when the positive test results are obtained. Hence, viral infections can be detected with the portable device produced without the need for long, expensive, and labor-intensive tests and equipment, which can make the viral tests disseminated at the point-of-care.
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    Size-Based Microparticle Seperation Using Negative Magnetophoresis
    (Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2021) Solmaz Özçelik, Özge; Öksüz, Cemre; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    We present a new size-based microparticle separation device using negative magnetophoresis. Microparticles spiked in the paramagnetic medium were filtered with respect to their sizes in a microfluidic channel placed between two magnets. Negative magnetophoresis allows large microparticles to be captured before the magnets, while small microparticles pass through the magnets under a constant flow. With this method, we reached 84.2% capturing efficiency of large microparticles (44 µm diameter) and capturing purity of 80.3% in the presence of small microparticles (17 µm diameter) at 3 µL/min flow rate. The capturing purity could further improve up to 99% by increasing the flow rate.
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    Citation - WoS: 10
    Citation - Scopus: 14
    An Electromechanical Lab-On Platform for Colorimetric Detection of Serum Creatinine
    (American Chemical Society, 2022) Karakuzu, Betül; Tarım, Ergün Alperay; Öksüz, Cemre; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a high-cost disease that affects approximately one in ten people globally, progresses rapidly, results in kidney failure or dialysis, and triggers other diseases. Although clinically used serum creatinine tests are used to evaluate kidney functions, these tests are not suitable for frequent and regular control at-home settings that obstruct the regular monitoring of kidney functions, improving CKD management with early intervention. This study introduced a new electromechanical lab-on-a-chip platform for point-of-care detection of serum creatinine levels using colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The platform was composed of a chip containing microreservoirs, a stirring bar coated with creatinine-specific antibodies, and a phone to detect color generated via ELISA protocols to evaluate creatinine levels. An electromechanical system was used to move the stirring bar to different microreservoirs and stir it inside them to capture and detect serum creatinine in the sample. The presented platform allowed automated analysis of creatinine in ~50 min down to ~1 and ~2 mg/dL in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and fetal bovine serum (FBS), respectively. Phone camera measurements in hue, saturation, value (HSV) space showed sensitive analysis compared to a benchtop spectrophotometer that could allow low-cost analysis at point-of-care.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    A Vacuum-Integrated Centrifugal Microfluidic Chip for Density-Based Separation of Microparticles
    (IEEE, 2021) Öksüz, Cemre; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Here we present a new vacuum-integrated centrifugal microfluidic chip for the density-based separation of microparticles. A sample was loaded in a fluidic channel using the gas permeability feature of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane between fluidic and control channels. Vacutun was applied from control channel to drive a density media and then the sample containing microparticles in the dead-end fluidic channel. Afterwards, the chip was disconnected from the vacuum and it was centrifugated. If the sample contains microparticles denser than the density media, the microparticles are sedimented at the end of the microfluidic channel so that these particles can be separated from remaining the lower density particles. With this approach, we separated 1.09 g/mL microparticles with 82,6% efficiency and 99% purity from 1.02 g/mL microparticles. Separated particles in the microfluidic chip can also be inspected under a microscope for further analysis. This simple approach offers high efficient density-based separation of microparticles with close densities.
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    Electromechanical Lab-On Platform for Creatinine Analysis Using Automated Elisa Protocols
    (Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2020) Karakuzu, Betül; Tarım, Ergün Alperay; Öksüz, Cemre; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    We present an electromechanical lab-on-a-chip (LOC) platform for the automated serum creatinine detection applying enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) principle. In the platform, antibody covered bar selectively captures the creatinine in the sample and the electromechanical system allows automatic movement between the designed reservoirs containing assay solutions. At the end of the protocol, the absorbance value of the appeared color is measured to determine creatinine concentration in the sample. Since this system allows measuring automatically creatinine levels with minimum time and cost, it can be utilized for point-of-care monitoring of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) for the future. © 2020 CBMS-0001