Blood tests are considered as standard clinical procedures to screen for markers of diseases
and health conditions. However, the complex cellular background (> 99.9% RBCs) and …

Ferrofluids investigated along for about five decades are ultrastable colloidal suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles, which manifest simultaneously fluid and magnetic properties. Their …

Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

Although aging has traditionally been viewed as the most important risk factor for
osteoarthritis (OA), an increasing amount of epidemiological evidence has highlighted the …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Magnetic cell separation has become a key methodology for the isolation of target cell
populations from biological suspensions, covering a wide spectrum of applications from …

The combination of magnetism and microscale fluid flow has opened up a new era for
handling and manipulation of samples in microfluidics. In particular, magnetophoresis, the …

Microfluidics, which is classified as either active or passive, is capable of separating cells of
interest from a complex and heterogeneous sample. Active methods utilise external fields …

Magnetophoresis, the manipulation of trajectory of micro‐scale entities using magnetic
forces, as employed in microfluidic devices is reviewed at length in this article …

Separation of nano/microparticles based on surface acoustic waves (SAWs) has shown
great promise for biological, chemical, and medical applications ranging from sample …