Droplet-based microfluidics

T Moragues, D Arguijo, T Beneyton, C Modavi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet-based microfluidic systems generate, manipulate and control sub-microlitre droplets
enclosed within an immiscible carrier fluid. Owing to a number of remarkable features, such …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

dPCR: a technology review

PL Quan, M Sauzade, E Brouzes - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) is a novel method for the absolute quantification
of target nucleic acids. Quantification by dPCR hinges on the fact that the random …

Ultrahigh-Throughput Enzyme Engineering and Discovery in In Vitro Compartments

M Gantz, S Neun, EJ Medcalf, LD van Vliet… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Novel and improved biocatalysts are increasingly sourced from libraries via experimental
screening. The success of such campaigns is crucially dependent on the number of …

Advances in ultrahigh-throughput screening for directed enzyme evolution

U Markel, KD Essani, V Besirlioglu, J Schiffels… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are versatile catalysts and their synthetic potential has been recognized for a long
time. In order to exploit their full potential, enzymes often need to be re-engineered or …

Single-cell analysis and sorting using droplet-based microfluidics

L Mazutis, J Gilbert, WL Ung, DA Weitz, AD Griffiths… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
We present a droplet-based microfluidics protocol for high-throughput analysis and sorting
of single cells. Compartmentalization of single cells in droplets enables the analysis of …

Droplet based microfluidics

R Seemann, M Brinkmann, T Pfohl… - Reports on progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet based microfluidics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research combining
soft matter physics, biochemistry and microsystems engineering. Its applications range from …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

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 …

Droplet microfluidics—A tool for single‐cell analysis

HN Joensson… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet microfluidics allows the isolation of single cells and reagents in monodisperse
picoliter liquid capsules and manipulations at a throughput of thousands of droplets per …