Fast detection and identification of microorganisms is a challenging and significant feature
from industry to medicine. Standard approaches are known to be very time-consuming and …

Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

Cardiac cell therapy holds a real promise for improving heart function and especially of the
chronically failing myocardium. Embedding cells into 3D biodegradable scaffolds may better …

The development of safe, effective and patient-acceptable drug products is an expensive
and lengthy process and the risk of failure at different stages of the development life-cycle is …

Neurological disorders are the leading cause of disability and the second largest cause of
death worldwide. Despite significant research efforts, neurology remains one of the most …

This review is an account of methods that use various strategies to control microfluidic flow
control with high accuracy. The reviewed systems are divided into two large groups based …

In contrast to cell cultures, particularly to cell lines, tissues or organs removed from the body
cannot be maintained for long in any culture conditions. Although it is apparent that in vivo …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has been the material of choice for microfluidic applications in
cell biology for many years, with recent advances encompassing nano-scaffolds and surface …

Encapsulating living cells within multilayer functional shells is a crucial extension of cellular
functions and a further development of cell surface engineering. In the last decade, cell …

The fabrication of perfusable hydrogels is crucial for recreating in vitro microphysiological
environments. Existing strategies to fabricate complex microchannels in hydrogels involve …