This critical review summarizes the developments in the integration of micro-optical
elements with microfluidic platforms for facilitating detection and automation of bio-analytical …

Assay devices designed for these applications offer improvements to existing methods or
provide fundamentally new strategies. Both mature methods and novel techniques have …

An electrochemical Lab-on-a-Disc (eLoaD) platform for the automated quantification of
ovarian cancer cells (SKOV3) from whole blood is reported. This centrifugal microfluidic …

Cell viability assessment is critical, yet existing assessments are not accurate enough. We
report a cell viability evaluation method based on the metabolic ability of a single cell …

Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are shed by primary tumours and are found in the peripheral
blood of patients with metastatic cancers. Recent studies have shown that the number of …

The integration of micro-optical elements with microfluidics leads to the highly promising
photonic lab-on-a-chip analytical systems (PhLoCs). In this work, we re-examine the main …

Optofluidics represents the interaction of light and fluids on a chip that integrates
microfluidics and optics, which provides a promising optical platform for manipulating and …

Efficient platforms for cell isolation and analysis play an important role in applied and
fundamental biomedical studies. As cells commonly have a size of around 10 microns …

The implementation of colorimetric analysis within microfluidic environments engenders
significant benefits with respect to reduced sample and reagent consumption, system …

Fluorescence‐based detection schemes provide for multiparameter analysis in a broad
range of applications in the chemical and biological sciences. Toward the realization of fully …