The ever-growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) demands immediate countermeasures. With its novelty and enabling features including downscaled analysis, precisely controlled local environment, and enhanced speed, accuracy, and cost-efficiency, microfluidics has demonstrated potential in several key areas, including furthering our understanding of bacteria, developing better susceptibility testing tools, and overcoming obstacles in discovery and research of new antibiotics. While ample research results in the field of microfluidics are available, their transformation into practical application is still lagging far behind. We believe that the challenge of AMR will give microfluidics a much-needed opportunity to leap from research papers to true productivity, and gain wider acceptance as a mature technology.

日益增长的抗菌素耐药性（AMR）威胁要求立即采取对策。微流控技术具有新颖性和功能性，包括缩减规模的分析，精确控制的本地环境以及提高的速度，准确性和成本效益，已在几个关键领域展示出了潜力，包括加深了我们对细菌的了解，开发了更好的药敏性测试工具以及克服了这一难题。新抗生素发现和研究的障碍。尽管在微流体领域有足够的研究成果，但它们在实际应用中的转化仍远远滞后。我们相信，AMR的挑战将为微流体提供一个急需的机会，使其从研究论文跃升为真正的生产率，并获得更广泛的接受，成为一种成熟的技术。