Droplet-based microfluidics

T Moragues, D Arguijo, T Beneyton, C Modavi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet-based microfluidic systems generate, manipulate and control sub-microlitre droplets
enclosed within an immiscible carrier fluid. Owing to a number of remarkable features, such …

Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Ultrahigh-Throughput Enzyme Engineering and Discovery in In Vitro Compartments

M Gantz, S Neun, EJ Medcalf, LD van Vliet… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Novel and improved biocatalysts are increasingly sourced from libraries via experimental
screening. The success of such campaigns is crucially dependent on the number of …

Single-cell barcoding and sequencing using droplet microfluidics

R Zilionis, J Nainys, A Veres, V Savova, D Zemmour… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing has recently emerged as a powerful tool for mapping cellular
heterogeneity in diseased and healthy tissues, yet high-throughput methods are needed for …

Advances in ultrahigh-throughput screening for directed enzyme evolution

U Markel, KD Essani, V Besirlioglu, J Schiffels… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are versatile catalysts and their synthetic potential has been recognized for a long
time. In order to exploit their full potential, enzymes often need to be re-engineered or …

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 …

The Poisson distribution and beyond: methods for microfluidic droplet production and single cell encapsulation

DJ Collins, A Neild, A DeMello, AQ Liu, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a recognized and growing need for rapid and efficient cell assays, where the size of
microfluidic devices lend themselves to the manipulation of cellular populations down to the …

Single-cell analysis and sorting using droplet-based microfluidics

L Mazutis, J Gilbert, WL Ung, DA Weitz, AD Griffiths… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
We present a droplet-based microfluidics protocol for high-throughput analysis and sorting
of single cells. Compartmentalization of single cells in droplets enables the analysis of …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD Xi, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

Emergence of a catalytic tetrad during evolution of a highly active artificial aldolase

R Obexer, A Godina, X Garrabou, PRE Mittl, D Baker… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Designing catalysts that achieve the rates and selectivities of natural enzymes is a long-
standing goal in protein chemistry. Here, we show that an ultrahigh-throughput droplet …