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Wearable sensors: modalities, challenges, and prospects by Heikenfeld, J, Jajack, A, Rogers, J, Gutruf, P, Tian, L, Pan, T, Li, R, Khine, M, Kim, J, Wang, J

“…Wearable sensors have recently seen a large increase in both research and commercialization. However, success in wearable sensors has been a mix of both…”
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Electrochemical paper-based devices: sensing approaches and progress toward practical applications by Noviana, Eka, McCord, Cynthia P, Clark, Kaylee M, Jang, Ilhoon, Henry, Charles S

“…Paper-based sensors offer an affordable yet powerful platform for field and point-of-care (POC) testing due to their self-pumping ability and utility for many…”
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Microfluidics for exosome isolation and analysis: enabling liquid biopsy for personalized medicine by Contreras-Naranjo, Jose C, Wu, Hung-Jen, Ugaz, Victor M

“…Exosomes, the smallest sized extracellular vesicles (∽30-150 nm) packaged with lipids, proteins, functional messenger RNAs and microRNAs, and double-stranded…”
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An outlook on microfluidics: the promise and the challenge by Battat, Sarah, Weitz, David A, Whitesides, George M

“…This perspective considers ways in which the field of microfluidics can increase its impact by improving existing technologies and enabling new…”
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The upcoming 3D-printing revolution in microfluidics by Bhattacharjee, Nirveek, Urrios, Arturo, Kang, Shawn, Folch, Albert

“…In the last two decades, the vast majority of microfluidic systems have been built in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) by soft lithography, a technique based on…”
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Fundamentals and applications of inertial microfluidics: a review by Zhang, Jun, Yan, Sheng, Yuan, Dan, Alici, Gursel, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Ebrahimi Warkiani, Majid, Li, Weihua

“…In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate…”
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Custom 3D printer and resin for 18 μm × 20 μm microfluidic flow channels by Gong, Hua, Bickham, Bryce P, Woolley, Adam T, Nordin, Gregory P

“…While there is great interest in 3D printing for microfluidic device fabrication, to-date the achieved feature sizes have not been in the truly microfluidic…”
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A microfluidic ExoSearch chip for multiplexed exosome detection towards blood-based ovarian cancer diagnosis by Zhao, Zheng, Yang, Yang, Zeng, Yong, He, Mei

“…Tumor-derived circulating exosomes, enriched with a group of tumor antigens, have been recognized as a promising biomarker source for cancer diagnosis via a…”
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Conventional and emerging strategies for the fabrication and functionalization of PDMS-based microfluidic devices by Shakeri, Amid, Khan, Shadman, Didar, Tohid F

“…Microfluidics is an emerging and multidisciplinary field that is of great interest to manufacturers in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry, as it provides…”
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Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation by Shields, 4th, C Wyatt, Reyes, Catherine D, López, Gabriel P

“…Accurate and high throughput cell sorting is a critical enabling technology in molecular and cellular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. While conventional…”
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Tumor-on-a-chip platform to investigate progression and drug sensitivity in cell lines and patient-derived organoids by Shirure, Venktesh S, Bi, Ye, Curtis, Matthew B, Lezia, Andrew, Goedegebuure, Madeleine M, Goedegebuure, S Peter, Aft, Rebecca, Fields, Ryan C, George, Steven C

“…Most cancer treatment strategies target cell proliferation, angiogenesis, migration, and intravasation of tumor cells in an attempt to limit tumor growth and…”
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A 3D neurovascular microfluidic model consisting of neurons, astrocytes and cerebral endothelial cells as a blood-brain barrier by Adriani, Giulia, Ma, Dongliang, Pavesi, Andrea, Kamm, Roger D, Goh, Eyleen L K

“…The neurovascular unit is a complex, interdependent system composed of neurons and neural supporting cells, such as astrocytes, as well as cells that comprise…”
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Capillary microfluidics in microchannels: from microfluidic networks to capillaric circuits by Olanrewaju, Ayokunle, Beaugrand, Maïwenn, Yafia, Mohamed, Juncker, David

“…Microfluidics offer economy of reagents, rapid liquid delivery, and potential for automation of many reactions, but often require peripheral equipment for flow…”
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Organ-on-a-chip devices advance to market by Zhang, Boyang, Radisic, Milica

“…To curb the high cost of drug development, there is an urgent need to develop more predictive tissue models using human cells to determine drug efficacy and…”
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Organs-on-chips with integrated electrodes for trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) measurements of human epithelial barrier function by Henry, Olivier Y F, Villenave, Remi, Cronce, Michael J, Leineweber, William D, Benz, Maximilian A, Ingber, Donald E

“…Trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) is broadly used as an experimental readout and a quality control assay for measuring the integrity of epithelial…”
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Single-cell microfluidic impedance cytometry: from raw signals to cell phenotypes using data analytics by Honrado, Carlos, Bisegna, Paolo, Swami, Nathan S, Caselli, Federica

“…The biophysical analysis of single-cells by microfluidic impedance cytometry is emerging as a label-free and high-throughput means to stratify the…”
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Paper-based microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices by Yetisen, Ali Kemal, Akram, Muhammad Safwan, Lowe, Christopher R

“…Dipstick and lateral-flow formats have dominated rapid diagnostics over the last three decades. These formats gained popularity in the consumer markets due to…”
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3D printed microfluidics for biological applications by Ho, Chee Meng Benjamin, Ng, Sum Huan, Li, King Ho Holden, Yoon, Yong-Jin

“…The term "Lab-on-a-Chip," is synonymous with describing microfluidic devices with biomedical applications. Even though microfluidics have been developing…”
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Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications by Ceylan, Hakan, Giltinan, Joshua, Kozielski, Kristen, Sitti, Metin

“…Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and…”
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Cell refractive index for cell biology and disease diagnosis: past, present and future by Liu, P Y, Chin, L K, Ser, W, Chen, H F, Hsieh, C-M, Lee, C-H, Sung, K-B, Ayi, T C, Yap, P H, Liedberg, B, Wang, K, Bourouina, T, Leprince-Wang, Y

“…Cell refractive index is a key biophysical parameter, which has been extensively studied. It is correlated with other cell biophysical properties including…”
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