Microfluidics has become a mature technology, providing an excellent toolbox for the
handling and manipulation of fluid samples, suspended cells, and particles. About 30 years …

With ever increasing drug resistance and emergence of new diseases, demand for new drug
development is at an unprecedented urgency. This fact has led to extensive recent efforts to …

Microfluidic platforms have been employed as an effective tool for drug screening and
exhibit the advantages of lower reagent consumption, higher throughput and a higher …

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is a key measure in clinical microbiology
laboratories to enable appropriate antimicrobial administration. During an AST, the …

The dynamic control of the chemical concentration within droplets is required in numerous
droplet microfluidic applications. Here, we propose an acoustofluidic method for the …

The growth of bacterial resistance to antimicrobials is a serious problem attracting much
attention nowadays. To prevent the misuse and abuse of antimicrobials, it is important to …

Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a serious public health issue worldwide. Timely and effective
antibiotics for controlling infection are crucial towards patient outcomes. However, the …

There has been extensive research on antibiotics exposure in adults by biomonitoring, but
the biological mechanisms and potential risks to human health remain limited. In this study …

Cell-to-cell differences exist ubiquitously in microbial communities. This individual
heterogeneity, often manifested in cell phenotypic function (eg, antibiotic resistance), can be …

The antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) is a general laboratory procedure for bacterial
identification and characterization and can be utilized to determine effective antimicrobials …