Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when the head experiences a violent hit and can cause disruption in regular brain activity1. Similar to many other diseases, early diagnosis of TBI can prevent progression towards irreversible damages. This is further highlighted in patients with unclear or minor...
Early diagnosis of prostate cancer, the sixth deadliest cancer type in men, can significantly increase the survival rate. For most men, the 5-year survival rate for local or regional tumors is around 100%. This number drops to~30% when it spreads to other regions1. Therefore, early...
Microfluidic chips are enabling handheld devices that are ideally suited for real-time analysis in biological and chemical assays. For example, they have been successfully used in a multitude of platforms such as organ-on-a-chips for real-time investigation of cell-cell and cell-environment interactions. The microfluidics field, however,...
Droplet microfluidics has proven as a revolutionary technique for single-cell analysis due to its high-throughput, uniformity, modularity. However, its applications are limited to single-cell analysis. High-throughput-experimentation enabled by droplet microfluidics can be employed for efficient exploration of numerous chemical reactions for catalysis and reaction discovery....
Organ-on-a-chip systems are well established as 3D cell culture microfluidic models capable of recapitulating the in vitro microenvironment of the cells. Organ-on-a-chips can differ in various aspects such as having a monoculture/coculture, mechanical components, electrical elements for actuation or real-time readouts, etc. The combination of...