Microfluidics as an emerging platform for exploring soil environmental processes: a critical review

X Zhu, K Wang, H Yan, C Liu, X Zhu… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Investigating environmental processes, especially those occurring in soils, calls for
innovative and multidisciplinary technologies that can provide insights at the microscale …

Human kidney stones: a natural record of universal biomineralization

M Sivaguru, JJ Saw, EM Wilson, JC Lieske… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
GeoBioMed—a new transdisciplinary approach that integrates the fields of geology, biology
and medicine—reveals that kidney stones composed of calcium-rich minerals precipitate …

Maintaining antibacterial activity against biofouling using a quaternary ammonium membrane coupling with electrorepulsion

J Sun, B Zhang, B Yu, B Ma, C Hu… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antibacterial modification is a chemical-free method to mitigate biofouling, but surface
accumulation of bacteria shields antibacterial groups and presents a significant challenge in …

Adaptive Laboratory Evolution of Probiotics toward Oxidative Stress Using a Microfluidic‐Based Platform

AV Nguyen, M Yaghoobi, S Zhang, P Li, Q Li, B Dogan… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) can be used to make bacteria less susceptible to
oxidative stress. An alternative to large batch scale ALE cultures is to use microfluidic …

The role of morphological changes in algae adaptation to nutrient stress at the single-cell level

P Yan, J Guo, P Zhang, Y Xiao, Z Li, S Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Individual cell heterogeneity within a population can be critical to its peculiar function and
fate. Conventional algal cell-based assays mainly analyze the average responses from a …

Microfluidic Evolution‐On‐A‐Chip Reveals New Mutations that Cause Antibiotic Resistance

AE Zoheir, GP Späth, CM Niemeyer, KS Rabe - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic devices can mimic naturally occurring microenvironments and create microbial
population heterogeneities ranging from planktonic cells to biofilm states. The exposure of …

Microbial community response to ciprofloxacin toxicity in sponge membrane bioreactor

BT Dang, XT Bui, T Itayama, HH Ngo, D Jahng… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to offer insights into how ciprofloxacin (CIP) impact bacterial community
structures in the Sponge-MBR process when CIP is spiked into hospital wastewater. We …

Impact of antibiotic concentration gradients on nitrate reduction and antibiotic resistance in a microfluidic gradient chamber

L Zhou, RE Alcalde, J Deng, B Zuniga… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to explore the impact of antibiotics on the bacterial metabolic cycling of nitrate within
contaminated soil and groundwater environments, we compared the effects of polymyxin B …

The role of chemotaxis and efflux pumps on nitrate reduction in the toxic regions of a ciprofloxacin concentration gradient

RE Alcalde, CM Dundas, Y Dong, RA Sanford… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Spatial concentration gradients of antibiotics are prevalent in the natural environment. Yet,
the microbial response in these heterogeneous systems remains poorly understood. We …

Microfluidics for adaptation of microorganisms to stress: design and application

AE Zoheir, C Stolle, KS Rabe - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2024 - Springer
Microfluidic systems have fundamentally transformed the realm of adaptive laboratory
evolution (ALE) for microorganisms by offering unparalleled control over environmental …