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 …

Circulating tumor cells, a component of the “liquid biopsy”, hold great potential to transform
the current landscape of cancer therapy. A key challenge to unlocking the clinical utility of …

Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Recent technological advances have enabled the detection and detailed characterization of
circulating tumor cells (CTC) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood samples from …

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

The selection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) directly from blood as a real-time liquid
biopsy has received increasing attention over the past ten years, and further analysis of …

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is an electrokinetic method that allows intrinsic dielectric properties
of suspended cells to be exploited for discrimination and separation. It has emerged as a …

Rare cells in blood, such as circulating tumor cells or fetal cells in the maternal circulation,
posses a great prognostic or diagnostic value, or for the development of personalized …

In recent years, dielectrophoretic force has been used to manipulate colloids, inert particles,
and biological microparticles, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, cancer …

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 …