Recent Progress of Microfluidics in Translational Applications.
Microfluidics, featuring microfabricated structures, is a technology for manipulating fluids at the micrometer scale. The small dimension and flexibility of microfluidic systems are ideal for mimicking molecular and cellular microenvironment, and show great potential in translational research and development. Here, the recent progress of microfluidics in biological and biomedical applications, including molecular analysis, cellular analysis, and chip-based material delivery and biomimetic design is presented. The potential future developments in the translational microfluidics field are also discussed.
Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.|Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Zongbin
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Liu
Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.|Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Xin
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Han
Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.|Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.|Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Lidong
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Qin
D032701:Biomimetics; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D006801:Humans; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000639:trends*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000639:trends*
cellular analysis; chip-based material delivery; microfluidics; molecular analysis; organ-on-a-chip