Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority

WH Lewis, G Tahon, P Geesink, DZ Sousa… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Advances in technical assessment of spiral inertial microfluidic devices toward bioparticle separation and profiling: A critical review

M Bagi, F Amjad, SM Ghoreishian… - BioChip Journal, 2024‏ - Springer
Separation of micro-and nano-sized bioparticles is essential for efficient diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, drug development, food and chemical processing, and …

Roadmap for optical tweezers

G Volpe, OM Maragò… - Journal of Physics …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trap**, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies*

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
From a technical point of view a flow cytometer is a light detection device capable of
detecting photons of different wavelengths over a high dynamic range. In order to achieve a …

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 …

Microfluidic‐based approaches in targeted cell/particle separation based on physical properties: fundamentals and applications

R Nasiri, A Shamloo, S Ahadian, L Amirifar, J Akbari… - Small, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

A review of sorting, separation and isolation of cells and microbeads for biomedical applications: microfluidic approaches

A Dalili, E Samiei, M Hoorfar - Analyst, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Plasmonic optical tweezers for particle manipulation: principles, methods, and applications

Y Ren, Q Chen, M He, X Zhang, H Qi, Y Yan - ACS nano, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Microfluidic single-cell manipulation and analysis: Methods and applications

T Luo, L Fan, R Zhu, D Sun - Micromachines, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. Similarly, no two cells in a
genetically identical group are the same. This heterogeneity at the single-cell level has been …