The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Accurate and high throughput cell sorting is a critical enabling technology in molecular and
cellular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. While conventional methods can provide high …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are rare cancer cells that are shed from primary or metastatic
tumors into the peripheral blood circulation. Phenotypic and genetic characterization of …

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 …

Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-
chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle …

Separation of cells is a critical process for studying cell properties, disease diagnostics, and
therapeutics. Cell sorting by acoustic waves offers a means to separate cells on the basis of …

Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Rare cells are low-abundance cells in a much larger population of background cells.
Conventional benchtop techniques have limited capabilities to isolate and analyze rare cells …

As an ideal method to manipulate biological particles, the dielectrophoresis (DEP) technique
has been widely used in clinical diagnosis, disease treatment, drug development …