title: Preface to Special Topic: Microsystems for manipulation and analysis of living cells.
abstract: This Preface describes exciting papers contributed to the Special Topic section on manipulation and analysis of cells using microsystems. Brief summaries of each paper are provided and general trends are discussed.
authors: University of California, Davis, Biomedical Engineering, Davis, California 95616, USA.
authors: Alexander
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authors: Revzin