As simulators of organisms in Nature, soft robots have been developed over the past few
decades. In particular, biohybrid robots constructed by integrating living cells with soft …

Single-cell analysis is essential to improve our understanding of cell functionality from
cellular and subcellular aspects for diagnosis and therapy. Single-cell cultivation is one of …

A core challenge in biomedical and life science research is to decipher cell-to-cell
differences under pathological progression or external perturbation. Microfluidics-based …

Heterogeneity in cell populations is a phenomenon encountered in virtually all biological
systems, in whole tissues and cell cultures and from bacterial to mammalian cells. Moreover …

Anticancer drug development is a crucial step toward cancer treatment, that requires realistic
predictions of malignant tissue development and sophisticated drug delivery. Tumors often …

Cellular metabolic heat (ΔP M) is produced from intracellular reactions, carrying information
about particular processes thus indicating the status of organisms. ΔP M originating from a …

The deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of in-plane silicon microneedles with open capillary
microfluidic network is presented. The in-plane needle design allows easy fabrication of …

This study proposed a novel method for the rapid fabrication of paper-based microfluidic
devices using a roll-to-roll wax transfer method. In this approach, a custom-made device was …

Microfluidic devices hold enormous potential for the development of cost-effective and faster
alternatives to existing traditional methods across life science applications. Here we …

The determination of the physical properties of fluids—such as the thermal characteristics,
which include heat transfer time (Δ t)—is becoming more challenging as system sizes shrink …