Microfluidic single-cell manipulation and analysis: Methods and applications

T Luo, L Fan, R Zhu, D Sun - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. Similarly, no two cells in a
genetically identical group are the same. This heterogeneity at the single-cell level has been …

Cancer liquid biopsy using integrated microfluidic exosome analysis platforms

G Li, W Tang, F Yang - Biotechnology journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid biopsies serve as both powerful noninvasive diagnostic tools for early cancer
screening and prognostic tools for monitoring cancer progression and treatment efficacy …

Scaling up stem cell production: harnessing the potential of microfluidic devices

L Ding, S Oh, J Shrestha, A Lam, Y Wang… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stem cells are specialised cells characterised by their unique ability to both self-renew and
transform into a wide array of specialised cell types. The widespread interest in stem cells for …

Micro/nanoengineered technologies for human pluripotent stem cells maintenance and differentiation

SN Esfahani, AMR Irizarry, X Xue, SBD Lee, Y Shao… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are a promising source of cells for cell replacement-
based therapies as well as modeling human development and diseases in vitro. However …

Application of microfluidic devices for glioblastoma study: Current status and future directions

X Cai, RG Briggs, HB Homburg, IM Young… - Biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most malignant primary brain tumors. This neoplasm is the
hardest to treat and has a bad prognosis. Because of the characteristics of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic three-dimensional cell culture of stem cells for high-throughput analysis

JA Kim, S Hong, WJ Rhee - World journal of stem cells, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although the recent advances in stem cell engineering have gained a great deal of attention
due to their high potential in clinical research, the applicability of stem cells for preclinical …

Highly parallelized human embryonic stem cell differentiation to cardiac mesoderm in nanoliter chambers on a microfluidic chip

AR Vollertsen, SA Den, V Schwach… - Biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Human stem cell-derived cells and tissues hold considerable potential for applications in
regenerative medicine, disease modeling and drug discovery. The generation, culture and …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-on-chip technology for aerobic intestinal host–anaerobic microbiota research

EGBM Bossink, LI Segerink, M Odijk - Organs-on-a-Chip, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Aerobic intestinal Host–Anaerobic Microbiota (AHAM) interface is an important
tissue barrier in our intestine where the microbiota resides in close proximity and in …

[HTML][HTML] Developments in cell culture systems for human pluripotent stem cells

W Liu, C Deng, C Godoy-Parejo, Y Zhang… - World Journal of Stem …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are important resources for cell-based therapies and
pharmaceutical applications. In order to realize the potential of hPSCs, it is critical to develop …

Towards three-dimensional dynamic regulation and in situ characterization of single stem cell phenotype using microfluidics

S Sart, SN Agathos - Molecular biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Mesenchymal stem cells and pluripotent stem cells are recognized as promising tools for
tissue engineering, cell therapy, and drug screening. Their use in therapy requires the …