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

Optical forces can be used to manipulate biological and colloidal material in a non-contact
manner. This forms the foundation of a wealth of exciting science, particularly in the fields of …

Transport of individual cells or chemical payloads on a subcellular scale is an enabling tool
for the study of cellular communication, cell migration, and other localized phenomena. We …

Leveraging developments in microfabrication open new possibilities for optical
manipulation. With the structural design freedom from three-dimensional printing capabilities …

Regulation of biological processes is often based on physical interactions between cells and
their microenvironment. To unravel how and where interactions occur, micromanipulation …

Microfluidic devices can better control cellular microenvironments compared to conventional
cell migration assays. Over the past few years, microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies …

We have developed an acoustic-based tunable patterning technique by which
microparticles or cells can be arranged into reconfigurable patterns in microfluidic channels …

The biomedical sciences have benefited immensely from photonics technologies in the last
50 years. This includes the application of minute forces that enable the trap** and …

This roadmap, through the contributions of ten groups worldwide, contains different
techniques, methods and materials devoted to sensing in nanomedicine. Optics is used in …

Directed cell migration is critical across biological processes spanning healing to cancer
invasion, yet no existing tools allow real-time interactive guidance over such migration. We …