Optical tweezers (OTs) are innovative instruments utilized for the manipulation of
microscopic biological objects of interest. Rapid improvements in precision and degree of …

Mechanical biomarkers distinguish health conditions through quantitative mechanical
measurements. The emergence and establishment of nanotechnology in the last decades …

Cell sorting and isolation from a heterogeneous mixture is a crucial task in many aspects of
cell biology, biotechnology and medicine. Recently, there has been an interest in methods …

Cell mechanical properties provide a label-free marker for indicating cell states and disease
processes. Although microfluidic deformability cytometry has demonstrated great potential …

Mechanical properties of biological cells have been shown to correlate with their
biomolecular state and function, and therefore methods to measure these properties at scale …

Real-time deformability (RT-DC) is a method for high-throughput mechanical and
morphological phenotyping of cells in suspension. While analysis rates exceeding 1000 …

In vitro erythroid cultures from human hematopoietic stem cells produce immature red blood
cells (RBCs) called reticulocytes, which are important for RBCs production, and are widely …

Ex vivo-generated red blood cells are a promising resource for future safe blood products,
manufactured independently of voluntary blood donations. The physiological process of …

Mechanical properties of cells can serve as a label-free marker of cell state and function and
their alterations have been implicated in processes such as cancer metastasis, leukocyte …

The mechanical performance of cardiomyocytes (CMs) is an important indicator of their
maturation state and of primary importance for the development of therapies based on …