Label-free microfluidic cell sorting and detection for rapid blood analysis

N Lu, HM Tay, C Petchakup, L He, L Gong, KK Maw… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood tests are considered as standard clinical procedures to screen for markers of diseases
and health conditions. However, the complex cellular background (> 99.9% RBCs) and …

Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles

M Wu, A Ozcelik, J Rufo, Z Wang, R Fang… - Microsystems & …, 2019 - nature.com
Acoustofluidics, the integration of acoustics and microfluidics, is a rapidly growing research
field that is addressing challenges in biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell technologies

MM Ferreira, VC Ramani, SS Jeffrey - Molecular oncology, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Microscale acoustic streaming for biomedical and bioanalytical applications

W Wei, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Duan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, acoustofluidics, one of the branches of microfluidics, has rapidly
developed as a multidisciplinary cutting edge research topic, covering many biomedical and …

Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …

A sound approach to advancing healthcare systems: the future of biomedical acoustics

J Rufo, P Zhang, R Zhong, LP Lee, TJ Huang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Newly developed acoustic technologies are playing a transformational role in life science
and biomedical applications ranging from the activation and inactivation of …

Recent advances in acoustofluidic separation technology in biology

Y Fan, X Wang, J Ren, F Lin, J Wu - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles is an emerging technology that integrates
acoustics and microfluidics. In the last decade, this technology has attracted significant …

Wave number–spiral acoustic tweezers for dynamic and reconfigurable manipulation of particles and cells

Z Tian, S Yang, PH Huang, Z Wang, P Zhang, Y Gu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Acoustic tweezers have recently raised great interest across many fields including biology,
chemistry, engineering, and medicine, as they can perform contactless, label-free …

Continuous flow microfluidic separation and processing of rare cells and bioparticles found in blood–A review

M Antfolk, T Laurell - Analytica chimica acta, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …