Exosome-based smart drug delivery tool for cancer theranostics

R Kar, R Dhar, S Mukherjee, S Nag… - ACS biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are the phospholipid-membrane-bound subpopulation of extracellular vesicles
derived from the plasma membrane. The main activity of exosomes is cellular …

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 …

Cell culture in microfluidic droplets

S Sart, G Ronteix, S Jain, G Amselem… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell manipulation in droplets has emerged as one of the great successes of microfluidic
technologies, with the development of single-cell screening. However, the droplet format has …

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 …

Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation

Y Gu, C Chen, Z Mao, H Bachman, R Becker, J Rufo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Liquid droplets have been studied for decades and have recently experienced renewed
attention as a simplified model for numerous fascinating physical phenomena occurring on …

Self-adaptive virtual microchannel for continuous enrichment and separation of nanoparticles

Y Yang, L Zhang, K Jin, M He, W Wei, X Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The transport, enrichment, and purification of nanoparticles are fundamental activities in the
fields of biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Here, we demonstrate an …

Microfluidic‐based approaches in targeted cell/particle separation based on physical properties: fundamentals and applications

R Nasiri, A Shamloo, S Ahadian, L Amirifar, J Akbari… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …

[HTML][HTML] Small extracellular vesicles in cancer

K Abhange, A Makler, Y Wen, N Ramnauth, W Mao… - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EV) are lipid-bilayer enclosed vesicles in submicron size that are
released from cells. A variety of molecules, including proteins, DNA fragments, RNAs, lipids …