Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Rapid identification of pathogen and its resistance to antimicrobial drugs, and subsequent
appropriate antimicrobial treatment are essential for correct patient outcomes. Conventional …

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is an essential task for selecting appropriate antimicrobial
agents to treat infectious diseases. Constant evolution has been observed in methods used …

With the conceptual advance about four decades ago that type 1 diabetes represents an
autoimmune disease, hope arose that immune-based therapies would soon emerge to …

The inherent heterogeneity in cell populations has become of great interest and importance
as analytical techniques have improved over the past decades. With the advent of …

In a pandemic era, rapid infectious disease diagnosis is essential. Surface-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS) promises sensitive and specific diagnosis including rapid …

Microencapsulation of living cells is a field that has been heavily investigated by many
researchers over the past two decades. Numerous experimental setups have been …

Optical tweezers offer a non-contact method for selecting single cells and translocating them
from one microenvironment to another. We have characterized the optical tweezing of yeast …

Simple, fast, and precise counting of viable bacteria is fundamental to a variety of
microbiological applications such as food quality monitoring and clinical diagnosis. To this …

Since being invented, droplet microfluidic technologies have been proven to be perfect tools
for high-throughput chemical and biological functional screening applications, and they …