A microfluidic Braille valve platform for on-demand production, combinatorial screening and sorting of chemically distinct droplets

R Utharala, A Grab, V Vafaizadeh, N Peschke… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Droplet microfluidics is a powerful tool for a variety of biological applications including single-
cell genetics, antibody discovery and directed evolution. All these applications make use of …

Recent advances in droplet-based microfluidic technologies for biochemistry and molecular biology

J Sánchez Barea, J Lee, DK Kang - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recently, droplet-based microfluidic systems have been widely used in various biochemical
and molecular biological assays. Since this platform technique allows manipulation of large …

A microfluidics platform for combinatorial drug screening on cancer biopsies

F Eduati, R Utharala, D Madhavan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Screening drugs on patient biopsies from solid tumours has immense potential, but is
challenging due to the small amount of available material. To address this, we present here …

NF-κB inhibitor with Temozolomide results in significant apoptosis in glioblastoma via the NF-κB (p65) and actin cytoskeleton regulatory pathways

NG Avci, S Ebrahimzadeh-Pustchi, YM Akay… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant brain tumor characterized by intrinsic or acquired
resistance to chemotherapy. GBM tumors show nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activity that has …

[HTML][HTML] Selectable encapsulated cell quantity in droplets via label-free electrical screening and impedance-activated sorting

J Zhong, M Liang, Q Tang, Y Ai - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-cell encapsulation in droplets has become a powerful tool in immunotherapy,
medicine discovery, and single-cell analysis, thanks to its capability for cell confinement in …

Microfluidics as an enabling technology for personalized cancer therapy

L Mathur, M Ballinger, R Utharala, CA Merten - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tailoring patient‐specific treatments for cancer is necessary in order to achieve optimal
results but requires new diagnostic approaches at affordable prices. Microfluidics has …

Recent progress in CRISPR-based microfluidic assays and applications

P Li, H **ong, B Yang, X Jiang, J Kong… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past few years, CRISPR-based (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats-based) detection techniques have arisen in the field of bioanalysis, molecular …

3D cell electrorotation and imaging for measuring multiple cellular biophysical properties

L Huang, P Zhao, W Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
3D rotation is one of many fundamental manipulations to cells and imperative in a wide
range of applications in single cell analysis involving biology, chemistry, physics and …

On-chip anticancer drug screening–Recent progress in microfluidic platforms to address challenges in chemotherapy

N Dhiman, P Kingshott, H Sumer, CS Sharma… - Biosensors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is an increasing need for advanced and inexpensive preclinical models to accelerate
the development of anticancer drugs. While costly animal models fail to predict human …

Cancer drug screening with an on-chip multi-drug dispenser in digital microfluidics

J Zhai, C Li, H Li, S Yi, N Yang, K Miao, C Deng, Y Jia… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics has been the most promising platform for drug screening with a limited number
of cells. However, convenient on-chip preparation of a wide range of drug concentrations …