Highly precise micromanipulation tools that can manipulate and interrogate cell organelles
and components must be developed to support the rapid development of new cell-based …

Microfluidic platforms have evolved in recent years to assist researchers and biologists in
performing biological and medical assays for cell separation and sorting. These microfluidic …

The separation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that originate from tumor or cancer tissue
plays an important role in cancer diagnostics, progression analyses, and treatment …

Maximizing the speed and efficiency at which single cells can be liberated from tissues
would dramatically advance cell-based diagnostics and therapies. Conventional methods …

This unique volume presents leading-edge microfluidics methods used to handle,
manipulate, and analyze cells, particles, and biological components (eg, proteins and DNA) …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

The past two decades have seen rapid development of micro-/nanotechnologies with the
integration of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and life sciences to …

Abnormal cell mechanical stiffness can point to the development of various diseases
including cancers and infections. We report a new microfluidic technique for continuous cell …

Recent advances in the lab-on-a-chip field in association with nano/microfluidics have been
made for new applications and functionalities to the fields of molecular biology, genetic …

The field of microfluidics is capable of producing useful biological tools. Cell separation is
one aspect of that larger biological tool, capable of isolating cells of interest from a complex …