The need for efficient cell separation, an essential preparatory step in many biological and
medical assays, has led to the recent development of numerous microscale separation …

Microfluidic cell-separation technologies have been studied for almost two decades, but the
limited throughput has restricted their impact and range of application. Recent advances in …

Accurate and high throughput cell sorting is a critical enabling technology in molecular and
cellular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. While conventional methods can provide high …

The progress in microfabrication and lab-on-a-chip technologies has been a major area of
development for new approaches to bioanalytics and integrated concepts for cell biology …

Blood plays an important role in homeostatic regulation with each of its cellular components
having important therapeutic and diagnostic uses. Therefore, separation and sorting of …

▪ Abstract Accurate, fast, and affordable analysis of the cellular component of blood is of
prime interest for medicine and research. Yet, most often sample preparation procedures for …

Advances in microfluidic cell sorting have revolutionized the ways in which cell‐containing
fluids are processed, now providing performances comparable to, or exceeding, traditional …

Blood, a complex biological fluid, comprises 45% cellular components suspended in protein
rich plasma. These different hematologic components perform distinct functions in vivo and …

Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Since the first microfluidic device was developed more than three decades ago, microfluidics
is seen as a technology that exhibits unique features to provide a significant change in the …