Light guiding and manipulation in photonics have become ubiquitous in events ranging from
everyday communications to complex robotics and nanomedicine. The speed and sensitivity …

Magnetic sorting using magnetic beads has become a routine methodology for the
separation of key cell populations from biological suspensions. Due to the inherent ability of …

Demand for accessible and affordable healthcare for infectious and chronic diseases
present significant challenges for providing high-value and effective healthcare. Traditional …

Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering have seen unprecedented growth in the past
decade, driving the field of artificial tissue models towards a revolution in future medicine …

Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA oligomers, identified from a random sequence
pool, with the ability to form unique and versatile tertiary structures that bind to cognate …

Rare cells are low-abundance cells in a much larger population of background cells.
Conventional benchtop techniques have limited capabilities to isolate and analyze rare cells …

Isolation of single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients is a very challenging
technique that may promote the process of individualized antitumor therapies. However …

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 …

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method typically active in genetic research,
especially to amplify or copy genes. Herein, the application of microfluidic devices for …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) originate from the primary tumor mass and enter into the
peripheral bloodstream. CTCs hold the key to understanding the biology of metastasis and …