Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation

CW Shields Iv, CD Reyes, GP López - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

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 …

The 2017 magnetism roadmap

D Sander, SO Valenzuela, D Makarov… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Building upon the success and relevance of the 2014 Magnetism Roadmap, this 2017
Magnetism Roadmap edition follows a similar general layout, even if its focus is naturally …

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 …

High-throughput screening by droplet microfluidics: Perspective into key challenges and future prospects

EM Payne, DA Holland-Moritz, S Sun, RT Kennedy - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In two decades of development, impressive strides have been made for automating basic
laboratory operations in droplet-based microfluidics, allowing the emergence of a new form …

Hydrogel biomaterials for stem cell microencapsulation

G Choe, J Park, H Park, JY Lee - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Stem cell transplantation has been recognized as a promising strategy to induce the
regeneration of injured and diseased tissues and sustain therapeutic molecules for …

Magnetically actuated droplet manipulation and its potential biomedical applications

G Huang, M Li, Q Yang, Y Li, H Liu… - ACS applied materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet manipulation has found broad applications in various engineering and biomedical
fields, such as biochemistry, microfluidic systems, drug delivery, and tissue engineering …

Generation and manipulation of hydrogel microcapsules by droplet-based microfluidics for mammalian cell culture

H Huang, Y Yu, Y Hu, X He, OB Usta, ML Yarmush - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel microcapsules provide miniaturized and biocompatible niches for three-
dimensional (3D) in vitro cell culture. They can be easily generated by droplet-based …

Advances in microfluidic strategies for single-cell research

Y Liu, Z Fan, L Qiao, B Liu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
A core challenge in biomedical and life science research is to decipher cell-to-cell
differences under pathological progression or external perturbation. Microfluidics-based …

Droplet detection and sorting system in microfluidics: a review

C Huang, Y Jiang, Y Li, H Zhang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since being invented, droplet microfluidic technologies have been proven to be perfect tools
for high-throughput chemical and biological functional screening applications, and they …