Label-free microfluidic cell sorting and detection for rapid blood analysis

N Lu, HM Tay, C Petchakup, L He, L Gong, KK Maw… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood tests are considered as standard clinical procedures to screen for markers of diseases
and health conditions. However, the complex cellular background (> 99.9% RBCs) and …

Viscoelastic microfluidics: Progress and challenges

J Zhou, I Papautsky - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2020 - nature.com
The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

Circulating biomarkers in patients with glioblastoma

J Müller Bark, A Kulasinghe, B Chua, BW Day… - British journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Gliomas are the most common tumours of the central nervous system and the most
aggressive form is glioblastoma (GBM). Despite advances in treatment, patient survival …

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 …

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 …

Basic principles and recent advances in magnetic cell separation

M Frenea-Robin, J Marchalot - Magnetochemistry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Magnetic cell separation has become a key methodology for the isolation of target cell
populations from biological suspensions, covering a wide spectrum of applications from …

Biosensing chips for cancer diagnosis and treatment: a new wave towards clinical innovation

MJ Iqbal, Z Javed, J Herrera-Bravo, H Sadia… - Cancer Cell …, 2022 - Springer
Recent technological advances in nanoscience and material designing have led to the
development of point-of-care devices for biomolecule sensing and cancer diagnosis. In situ …

Recent advances in microfluidic platforms applied in cancer metastasis: Circulating tumor cells'(CTCs) isolation and tumor‐on‐a‐chip

Z Lin, G Luo, W Du, T Kong, C Liu, Z Liu - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer remains the leading cause of death worldwide despite the enormous efforts that are
made in the development of cancer biology and anticancer therapeutic treatment …

The liquid biopsy for lung cancer: state of the art, limitations and future developments

D Di Capua, D Bracken-Clarke, K Ronan, AM Baird… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary During the development and progression of lung tumors, processes such
as necrosis and vascular invasion shed tumor cells or cellular components into various fluid …

Geometric structure design of passive label-free microfluidic systems for biological micro-object separation

H Tang, J Niu, H Jin, S Lin, D Cui - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2022 - nature.com
Passive and label-free microfluidic devices have no complex external accessories or
detection-interfering label particles. These devices are now widely used in medical and …