There are various pathogenic bacteria in the surrounding living environment, which not only
pose a great threat to human health but also bring huge losses to economic development …

Droplet manipulations are critical for applications ranging from biochemical analysis,
medical diagnosis to environmental controls. Even though magnetic actuation has exhibited …

Background Cellular response to pharmacological action of drugs is significant for drug
development. Traditional detection method for cellular response to drugs normally rely on …

There is often a tradeoff between in vitro disease modeling platforms that capture
pathophysiologic complexity and those that are amenable to high-throughput fabrication and …

Conventional antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) assays such as broth microdilution and
Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion are time-consuming (eg, 24–72 h) and labor-intensive. Here, we …

The effects of organic and inorganic additives on crystal morphology have been extensively
studied in various materials. However, the basic fundamentals behind the morphology …

Rapid identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria will play a key role in solving the global
antibiotic crisis by providing a route to targeted antibiotic administration. However, current …

Microfluidic devices that generate stable concentration gradients are efficient instruments for
automated calibration for analytical and bioanalytical systems. However, little attention has …

It is essential to control concentration gradients at specific locations for many biochemical
experiments. This paper proposes a tunable concentration gradient generator actuated by …

Antibiotics are often prescribed before pathogens are identified and susceptibility to the
prescribed drug is confirmed; laboratory results may take up to 3 days. Using rapid antibiotic …