3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Protein purification and analysis: next generation Western blotting techniques

M Mishra, S Tiwari, AV Gomes - Expert review of proteomics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Western blotting is one of the most commonly used techniques in molecular
biology and proteomics. Since western blotting is a multistep protocol, variations and errors …

Opportunities and challenges for use of tumor spheroids as models to test drug delivery and efficacy

G Mehta, AY Hsiao, M Ingram, GD Luker… - Journal of controlled …, 2012 - Elsevier
Multicellular spheroids are three dimensional in vitro microscale tissue analogs. The current
article examines the suitability of spheroids as an in vitro platform for testing drug delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Protein immobilization techniques for microfluidic assays

D Kim, AE Herr - Biomicrofluidics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic systems have shown unequivocal performance improvements over conventional
bench-top assays across a range of performance metrics. For example, specific advances …

Microfluidics for biomedical analysis

Y Yang, Y Chen, H Tang, N Zong, X Jiang - Small methods, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many new techniques and materials have been applied to microfluidic systems in the past
decade, and integrated microfluidic chips have become powerful platforms for realizing …

Microfluidic approaches for isolation, detection, and characterization of extracellular vesicles: Current status and future directions

S Gholizadeh, MS Draz, M Zarghooni… - Biosensors and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived vesicles present in body fluids that play an
essential role in various cellular processes, such as intercellular communication …

Recent advances for cancer detection and treatment by microfluidic technology, review and update

N Bargahi, S Ghasemali, S Jahandar-Lashaki… - Biological Procedures …, 2022 - Springer
Numerous cancer-associated deaths are owing to a lack of effective diagnostic and
therapeutic approaches. Microfluidic systems for analyzing a low volume of samples offer a …

Hydrogel microparticles for biosensing

GC Le Goff, RL Srinivas, WA Hill, PS Doyle - European polymer journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Due to their hydrophilic, biocompatible, and highly tunable nature, hydrogel materials have
attracted strong interest in the recent years for numerous biotechnological applications. In …

Microfluidic exosome analysis toward liquid biopsy for cancer

M He, Y Zeng - Journal of laboratory automation, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Assessment of a tumor's molecular makeup using biofluid samples, known as liquid biopsy,
is a prominent research topic in precision medicine for cancer, due to its noninvasive …

Organs-on-a-chip: a focus on compartmentalized microdevices

C Moraes, G Mehta, SC Lesher-Perez… - Annals of biomedical …, 2012 - Springer
Advances in microengineering technologies have enabled a variety of insights into
biomedical sciences that would not have been possible with conventional techniques …