Themed collection Lab on a Chip 2017 Most Downloaded Articles

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Tutorial Review

Liquid metal enabled microfluidics

This review discusses the opportunities provided by gallium liquid metal alloys for making various microfluidic components.

Graphical abstract: Liquid metal enabled microfluidics
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Open Access Critical Review

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and inside enclosed organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices with live cells.

Graphical abstract: Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications
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Critical Review

Towards next-generation label-free biosensors: recent advances in whispering gallery mode sensors

We review recent advances achieved in the field of optical whispering gallery mode biosensors. We discuss major challenges that these label-free sensors are faced with on their way towards future real-world applications and introduce different approaches suggested to overcome these issues. We furthermore highlight their potential future applications.

Graphical abstract: Towards next-generation label-free biosensors: recent advances in whispering gallery mode sensors
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Critical Review

Microchip-based single-cell functional proteomics for biomedical applications

Cellular heterogeneity has been widely recognized but only recently have single cell tools become available that allow characterizing heterogeneity at the genomic and proteomic levels.

Graphical abstract: Microchip-based single-cell functional proteomics for biomedical applications
From the themed collection: Lab on a Chip 2017 Most Downloaded Articles
Critical Review

Toward practical application of paper-based microfluidics for medical diagnostics: state-of-the-art and challenges

The readiness of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) for real world diagnostic applications is described from various aspects.

Graphical abstract: Toward practical application of paper-based microfluidics for medical diagnostics: state-of-the-art and challenges
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Critical Review

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

This review presents the fundamentals of different active methods for sorting droplets in microfluidics.

Graphical abstract: Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review
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Critical Review

Passive and active droplet generation with microfluidics: a review

We present a comprehensive review on the fundamentals of passive and active microfluidic droplet generation.

Graphical abstract: Passive and active droplet generation with microfluidics: a review
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Open Access Critical Review

Advancements in microfluidics for nanoparticle separation

Nanoparticles have been widely implemented for healthcare and nanoscience industrial applications.

Graphical abstract: Advancements in microfluidics for nanoparticle separation
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Paper

A vascularized and perfused organ-on-a-chip platform for large-scale drug screening applications

A vascularized, perfused organ-on-a-chip platform suitable for large-scale drug efficacy/toxicity screening.

Graphical abstract: A vascularized and perfused organ-on-a-chip platform for large-scale drug screening applications
From the themed collection: Organ-, body- and disease-on-a-chip systems
Paper

A 3D neurovascular microfluidic model consisting of neurons, astrocytes and cerebral endothelial cells as a blood–brain barrier

A 3D microfluidic neurovascular model (A), using a differential seeding procedure (B) for co-culturing neurons, astrocytes and endothelial cells (C).

Graphical abstract: A 3D neurovascular microfluidic model consisting of neurons, astrocytes and cerebral endothelial cells as a blood–brain barrier
From the themed collection: Lab on a Chip 2017 Most Downloaded Articles
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