Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are tumor cells that shed from the primary tumor and
intravasate into the peripheral blood circulation system responsible for metastasis. Sensitive …

Microfluidics has become a mature technology, providing an excellent toolbox for the
handling and manipulation of fluid samples, suspended cells, and particles. About 30 years …

Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Simple Summary Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are cancer cells shed into the bloodstream
from tumours and their analysis can provide important insights into cancer detection and …

Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) is one of the most valuable and widespread
treatments in modern medicine. Lifesaving RBC transfusions are facilitated by the cold …

Inertial microfluidics uses the hydrodynamic effects induced at finite Reynolds numbers to
achieve passive manipulation of particles, cells, or fluids and offers the advantages of high …

The selection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) directly from blood as a real-time liquid
biopsy has received increasing attention over the past ten years, and further analysis of …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Magnetic cell separation has become a key methodology for the isolation of target cell
populations from biological suspensions, covering a wide spectrum of applications from …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a crucial biomarker for early cancer diagnosis and
progress of cancer metastasis. However, the extremely rare CTCs with large amounts of …