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Western blotting (WB), in conjunction with polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, is a crucial analytical method and instrument in biological sciences. It is still used as a potent diagnostic strategy in medical labs. However, its process involves a number of phases that are typically time and resource consuming in addition to having low throughput.

A microfluidic western blotting (μWB​) method has been created in the modern era employing advancements in microfluidics to drastically optimize resources and shorten experimental cycles. Multiplexing is also made possible by more recent developments, which encourage protein diversity exploration.