Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation

CW Shields Iv, CD Reyes, GP López - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD Xi, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

Microfluidic technologies for circulating tumor cell isolation

H Cho, J Kim, H Song, KY Sohn, MH Jeon, KH Han - Analyst, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metastasis is the main cause of tumor-related death, and the dispersal of tumor cells through
the circulatory system is a critical step in the metastatic process. Early detection and analysis …

Microfluidic: an innovative tool for efficient cell sorting

J Autebert, B Coudert, FC Bidard, JY Pierga… - Methods, 2012 - Elsevier
At first mostly dedicated to molecular analysis, microfluidic systems are rapidly expanding
their range of applications towards cell biology, thanks to their ability to control the …

Single-cell analysis in biotechnology, systems biology, and biocatalysis

FSO Fritzsch, C Dusny, O Frick… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Single-cell analysis (SCA) has been increasingly recognized as the key technology for the
elucidation of cellular functions, which are not accessible from bulk measurements on the …

Standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)‐based fluorescence‐activated cell sorter

L Ren, S Yang, P Zhang, Z Qu, Z Mao, PH Huang… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic fluorescence‐activated cell sorters (μFACS) have attracted considerable interest
because of their ability to identify and separate cells in inexpensive and biosafe ways. Here …

Recent advances in microfluidic cell sorting techniques based on both physical and biochemical principles

W Tang, D Jiang, Z Li, L Zhu, J Shi, J Yang… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic technologies for isolating cells of interest from a heterogeneous sample have
attracted great attentions, due to the advantages of less sample consumption, simple …

Encapsulation of single cells on a microfluidic device integrating droplet generation with fluorescence-activated droplet sorting

L Wu, P Chen, Y Dong, X Feng, BF Liu - Biomedical microdevices, 2013 - Springer
Encapsulation of single cells is a challenging task in droplet microfluidics due to the random
compartmentalization of cells dictated by Poisson statistics. In this paper, a microfluidic …

Microfluidics and catalyst particles

M Solsona, JC Vollenbroek, CBM Tregouet… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review article, we discuss the latest advances and future perspectives of microfluidics
for micro/nanoscale catalyst particle synthesis and analysis. In the first section, we present …

Microfluidic platform for cell isolation and manipulation based on cell properties

CM Yousuff, ETW Ho, I Hussain K, NHB Hamid - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
In molecular and cellular biological research, cell isolation and sorting are required for
accurate investigation of a specific cell types. By employing unique cell properties to …