Circulating tumor cells: biology and clinical significance

D Lin, L Shen, M Luo, K Zhang, J Li, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are tumor cells that have sloughed off the primary tumor and
extravasate into and circulate in the blood. Understanding of the metastatic cascade of CTCs …

Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

Channel innovations for inertial microfluidics

W Tang, S Zhu, D Jiang, L Zhu, J Yang, N Xiang - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics has gained significant attention since first being proposed in 2007
owing to the advantages of simplicity, high throughput, precise manipulation, and freedom …

Droplet-based microfluidics in biomedical applications

L Amirifar, M Besanjideh, R Nasiri, A Shamloo… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Aerogel‐based biomaterials for biomedical applications: From fabrication methods to disease‐targeting applications

S Karamikamkar, EP Yalcintas, R Haghniaz… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerogel‐based biomaterials are increasingly being considered for biomedical applications
due to their unique properties such as high porosity, hierarchical porous network, and large …

Gut-on-a-chip: Current progress and future opportunities

N Ashammakhi, R Nasiri, NR De Barros, P Tebon… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Organ-on-a-chip technology tries to mimic the complexity of native tissues in vitro. Important
progress has recently been made in using this technology to study the gut with and without …

In-situ transfer vat photopolymerization for transparent microfluidic device fabrication

Y Xu, F Qi, H Mao, S Li, Y Zhu, J Gong, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While vat photopolymerization has many advantages over soft lithography in fabricating
microfluidic devices, including efficiency and shape complexity, it has difficulty achieving …

Recent microfluidic advances in submicron to nanoparticle manipulation and separation

S Hettiarachchi, H Cha, L Ouyang, A Mudugamuwa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulation and separation of submicron and nanoparticles are indispensable in many
chemical, biological, medical, and environmental applications. Conventional technologies …

Multiphysics microfluidics for cell manipulation and separation: a review

H Cha, H Fallahi, Y Dai, D Yuan, H An, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Microfluidic tissue engineering and bio‐actuation

M Filippi, T Buchner, O Yasa, S Weirich… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐hybrid technologies aim to replicate the unique capabilities of biological systems that
could surpass advanced artificial technologies. Soft bio‐hybrid robots consist of synthetic …