Front Cover: Single Microbead‐Anchored Fluorescent Immunoassay (SMFIA): A Facile and Versatile Platform Allowing Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Antigens (Chem. Asian J. 22/2017)

Fluorescent immunoassay on a single microbead : A concept of single microbead‐anchored fluorescent immunoassay (SMFIA) has been developed for the facile and sensitive detection of various antigens. Owing to the highly concentrated fluorescence enrichment on a single microbead, the high sensitivity of the SMFIA can fully meet the clinical demand for disease diagnosis just by employing common sandwich immunoreactions without any further signal amplification routes. Furthermore, a fluorescence‐encoding mechanism that allows simultaneous detection of multiple antigens in a single reaction is proposed. More information can be found in the Communication by Chenghui Liu, Zhengping Li et al. on page 2894 in Issue 22, 2017 (DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701245).