Bionic structures and materials inspired by plant leaves: A comprehensive review for innovative problem-solving

H Yu, J Zhang, S Zhang, Z Han - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Leaves have developed various functional structures to enhance plant survival, making
them the most typical bionic prototypes. Bionic research inspired by plant leaves has yielded …

Microfluidic chips: recent advances, critical strategies in design, applications and future perspectives

P Pattanayak, SK Singh, M Gulati, S Vishwas… - Microfluidics and …, 2021 - Springer
Microfluidic chip technology is an emerging tool in the field of biomedical application.
Microfluidic chip includes a set of groves or microchannels that are engraved on different …

Microfluidic technologies for accelerating the clinical translation of nanoparticles

PM Valencia, OC Farokhzad, R Karnik… - Nano-enabled medical …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter highlights the advances in microfluidic systems that can synthesize libraries of
nanoparticles in a well-controlled, reproducible and high-throughput manner. In fact …

Phenomics: the next challenge

D Houle, DR Govindaraju, S Omholt - Nature reviews genetics, 2010 - nature.com
A key goal of biology is to understand phenotypic characteristics, such as health, disease
and evolutionary fitness. Phenotypic variation is produced through a complex web of …

Biological research and self-driving labs in deep space supported by artificial intelligence

LM Sanders, RT Scott, JH Yang, AA Qutub… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Space biology research aims to understand fundamental spaceflight effects on
organisms, develop foundational knowledge to support deep space exploration and …

The ePetri dish, an on-chip cell imaging platform based on subpixel perspective sweeping microscopy (SPSM)

G Zheng, SA Lee, Y Antebi… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
We report a chip-scale lensless wide-field-of-view microscopy imaging technique, subpixel
perspective sweeping microscopy, which can render microscopy images of growing or …

Engineering microfluidic concentration gradient generators for biological applications

AGG Toh, ZP Wang, C Yang, NT Nguyen - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2014 - Springer
This paper reviews the latest developments in the design and fabrication of concentration
gradient generators for microfluidics-based biological applications. New gradient generator …

Machine learning phenomics (MLP) combining deep learning with time-lapse-microscopy for monitoring colorectal adenocarcinoma cells gene expression and drug …

M D'Orazio, M Murdocca, A Mencattini, P Casti… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
High-throughput phenotyping is becoming increasingly available thanks to analytical and
bioinformatics approaches that enable the use of very high-dimensional data and to the …

Roadmap for optofluidics

P Minzioni, R Osellame, C Sada, S Zhao… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Optofluidics, nominally the research area where optics and fluidics merge, is a relatively new
research field and it is only in the last decade that there has been a large increase in the …

Microfluidic devices for studying heterotypic cell-cell interactions and tissue specimen cultures under controlled microenvironments

IK Zervantonakis, CR Kothapalli, S Chung, R Sudo… - …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic devices allow for precise control of the cellular and noncellular
microenvironment at physiologically relevant length-and time-scales. These devices have …