[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-microfluidics nexus: Advancing biomedical applications for understanding and detection

ZS Razavi, M Soltani, H Pazoki-Toroudi… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The integration of CRISPR technology with microfluidic-based biosensors has greatly
expanded its applications in medicine and molecular biology. This combination offers …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements in technology for characterizing the tumor immune microenvironment

H Yan, X Ju, A Huang, J Yuan - International Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy plays a key role in cancer treatment, however, responses are limited to a
small number of patients. The biological basis for the success of immunotherapy is the …

Tools and methods for high-throughput single-cell imaging with the mother machine

R Thiermann, M Sandler, G Ahir, JT Sauls, J Schroeder… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Despite much progress, image processing remains a significant bottleneck for high-
throughput analysis of microscopy data. One popular platform for single-cell time-lapse …

Molecular and microbiological methods for the identification of nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis

JP Sarathy - Plos Pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Chronic tuberculosis (TB) disease, which requires months-long chemotherapy with multiple
antibiotics, is defined by diverse pathological manifestations and bacterial phenotypes …

Scaling of stochastic growth and division dynamics: A comparative study of individual rod-shaped cells in the Mother Machine and SChemostat platforms

KF Ziegler, K Joshi, CS Wright, S Roy… - Molecular Biology of …, 2024 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Microfluidic platforms enable long-term quantification of stochastic behaviors of individual
bacterial cells under precisely controlled growth conditions. Yet, quantitative comparisons of …

Pyecolib: a python library for simulating stochastic cell size dynamics

C Nieto, SC Blanco, C Vargas-García, A Singh… - Physical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, there has been an increasing need for tools to simulate cell size regulation due to
important applications in cell proliferation and gene expression. However, implementing the …

Harnessing microfluidic technology for bacterial single-cell analysis in mammals

X Guo, Q Shen, Z Chen, Z He, X Yan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacteria, as the predominant species in mammalian microbiomes, play important roles in the
regulation of host health and disease. Bacterial analysis down to the single-cell level is …

Decoding senescence of aging single cells at the nexus of biomaterials, microfluidics, and spatial omics

A Venkataraman, I Kordic, JX Li, N Zhang… - npj Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Aging has profound effects on the body, most notably an increase in the prevalence of
several diseases. An important aging hallmark is the presence of senescent cells that no …

[HTML][HTML] ObiWan-Microbi: OMERO-based integrated workflow for annotating microbes in the cloud

J Seiffarth, T Scherr, B Wollenhaupt, O Neumann… - SoftwareX, 2024 - Elsevier
Automated microscopy techniques combined with high-throughput microfluidic cultivation
systems provide unique insights into living microorganisms, enabling hundreds of …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of microfluidic devices for continuously monitoring yeast aging

R O'Laughlin, E Forrest, J Hasty, N Hao - Bio-protocol, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For several decades, aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been studied in hopes of
understanding its causes and identifying conserved pathways that also drive aging in …