title: Frontier microfluidic techniques for short and long-term single cell analysis.
abstract: Here, we review the frontier microfluidic techniques for single cell analysis (SCA), which is important for research of many biological systems. Microfluidics provides high-throughput, high-resolution experiments at low cost and reagent use, making it especially useful for single cell analysis. Recent advancements in the field have made SCA more feasible, improving device throughput and resolution, adding capabilities, and combining different functions to bring forth new assays. Developments in incubation have allowed for long-term cell tracking assays to be performed with single cell resolution. The ability of systems to provide chemical isolation or prolonged growth of adherent cells is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 32000. shulamit@bm.technion.ac.il.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Avesar
authors.forename: Tom Ben
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Arye
authors.forename: Shulamit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levenberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*