Ensuring food safety: Quality monitoring using microfluidics

X Weng, S Neethirajan - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Food safety, which is the primary goal of food analysis, is a worldwide health
concern to both humans and animals. Thus, this topic is of substantial interest to food …

Active microfluidic systems for cell sorting and separation

M Sivaramakrishnan, R Kothandan… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid progress in the field of microfluidics coupled with increase in demand for cell
separation techniques for biomedical diagnostics has gained significant attention among …

Tunable particle separation in a hybrid dielectrophoresis (DEP)-inertial microfluidic device

J Zhang, D Yuan, Q Zhao, S Yan, SY Tang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Particle separation is indispensable in many microfluidic systems and holds a broad range
of biomedical applications. Inertial microfluidic devices that work solely on intrinsic …

Design of a novel integrated microfluidic chip for continuous separation of circulating tumor cells from peripheral blood cells

MS Bakhshi, M Rizwan, GJ Khan, H Duan, K Zhai - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is one of the foremost causes of death globally. Late-stage presentation,
inaccessible diagnosis, and treatment are common challenges in developed countries …

Microfluidic approaches for affinity-based exosome separation

EK Theel, SP Schwaminger - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a subspecies of extracellular vesicles (EVs), exosomes have provided promising results
in diagnostic and theranostic applications in recent years. The nanometer-sized exosomes …

Pulsed laser triggered high speed microfluidic fluorescence activated cell sorter

TH Wu, Y Chen, SY Park, J Hong, T Teslaa, JF Zhong… - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a high speed and high purity pulsed laser triggered fluorescence activated cell
sorter (PLACS) with a sorting throughput up to 20 000 mammalian cells s− 1 with 37 …

Past, present, and future of affinity-based cell separation technologies

K Bacon, A Lavoie, BM Rao, M Daniele, S Menegatti - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Progress in cell purification technology is critical to increase the availability of viable cells for
therapeutic, diagnostic, and research applications. A variety of techniques are now available …

Large-volume microfluidic cell sorting for biomedical applications

ME Warkiani, L Wu, AKP Tay… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Microfluidic cell-separation technologies have been studied for almost two decades, but the
limited throughput has restricted their impact and range of application. Recent advances in …

Multiscale immunomagnetic enrichment of circulating tumor cells: from tubes to microchips

P Chen, YY Huang, K Hoshino, X Zhang - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the rare cancer cell sorting technologies, with a focus on multiscale
immunomagnetic approaches. Starting from the conventional magnetic activated cell sorting …

Enrichment of circulating tumor cells in tumor-bearing mouse blood by a deterministic lateral displacement microfluidic device

H Okano, T Konishi, T Suzuki, T Suzuki, S Ariyasu… - Biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
Concentration of real tumor cells leaking into blood from cancer was attempted by a
deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) microfluidic device. Spiked cultured cell line tumor …