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 …

Circulating tumor cells in precision medicine: challenges and opportunities

B Rupp, H Ball, F Wuchu, D Nagrath… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2022 - cell.com
The mutational and phenotypic landscape of tumors is dynamic, requiring constant
monitoring of cancer patients to provide the most up-to-date and effective care. Circulating …

Tumour-reprogrammed stromal BCAT1 fuels branched-chain ketoacid dependency in stromal-rich PDAC tumours

Z Zhu, A Achreja, N Meurs, O Animasahun, S Owen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) supply both carbon and nitrogen in pancreatic
cancers, and increased levels of BCAAs have been associated with increased risk of …

Microfluidic-based technologies for CTC isolation: a review of 10 years of intense efforts towards liquid biopsy

L Descamps, D Le Roy, AL Deman - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The selection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) directly from blood as a real-time liquid
biopsy has received increasing attention over the past ten years, and further analysis of …

Hydro-Seq enables contamination-free high-throughput single-cell RNA-sequencing for circulating tumor cells

YH Cheng, YC Chen, E Lin, R Brien, S Jung… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Molecular analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) at single-cell resolution offers great
promise for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics from simple liquid biopsy. Recent …

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 …

Recent advances in microfluidic cell sorting systems

Y Shen, Y Yalikun, Y Tanaka - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective and high-throughput cell sorting are critical technologies in single cell analysis in
biology, medicine and clinical applications. Especially for single cell analysis requiring high …

Efficient recovery of potent tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes through quantitative immunomagnetic cell sorting

Z Wang, S Ahmed, M Labib, H Wang, X Hu… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Adoptive cell therapies require the recovery and expansion of highly potent tumour-
infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). However, TILs in tumours are rare and difficult to isolate …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell-derived organoids: Current challenges and promises in medical research and precision medicine

PP Praharaj, SK Bhutia, S Nagrath, RL Bitting… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional 2D cell cultures do not accurately recapitulate tumor heterogeneity, and
insufficient human cell lines are available. Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models more …

Nanoparticle amplification labeling for high-performance magnetic cell sorting

Z Wang, H Wang, S Lin, S Ahmed, S Angers… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Magnetic cell sorting is an enabling tool for the isolation of specific cellular subpopulations
for downstream applications and requires the cells to be labeled by a sufficient number of …