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Live-Cell Imaging of Invasion and Intravasation in an Artificial Microvessel Platform (2014)
Andrew D. Wong, Peter C. Searson
http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-14-1042
Aug 15, 2018 - From the engineering perspective, the device fabrication is relatively simple —— easy for biology labs to adapt. It showcased almost all the essays that should be available for microvessel in vitro model: flow control, permeability measurement, live cell imaging, cell invasion and ...
A perspective on paper-based microfluidics: Current status and future trends (2012)
Xu Li, David R. Ballerini, Wei Shen
2 comments on PubPeer • http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3687398
Aug 09, 2018 - Review of paper-based microfluidics. Personally I haven't been working on paper-based devices. After ~ 5 years of the development (since DOI: 10.1002/anie.200603817 ), looks like there were couple different ways to generate the pattern, and the main detection method was still color...
Understanding Wax Printing: A Simple Micropatterning Process for Paper-Based Microfluidics (2009)
Emanuel Carrilho, Andres W. Martinez, George M. Whitesides
5 comments on PubPeer • http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac901071p
Aug 09, 2018 - A subgroup: paper-based microfluidics. Technically speaking, paper based analytical devices have already been commercialized and widely used in the form of glucose meters, A1C test stripes, and cholesterol read out chips. By applying alternative pattern design/microfabrication meth...
Microfluidics-based systems biology (2006)
David N. Breslauer, Philip J. Lee, Luke P. Lee
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b515632g
Aug 09, 2018 - An excellent review regarding applications in system biology.
Integrated nanoliter systems (2003)
Jong Wook Hong, Stephen R Quake
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14520403
Aug 09, 2018 - Proposed solutions to high-throughput requirements.
Physiologically relevant organs on chips (2014)
Kyungsuk Yum, Soon Gweon Hong, Kevin E. Healy, Luke P. Lee
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24357624
Aug 09, 2018 - The recent development of microengineered physiological systems, or also known as “ogans‐on‐chips”, that reconstitute the physiologically critical features of specific human tissues and organs and their interactions.
Microfluidic 3D models of cancer (2014)
Kyung Eun Sung, David J. Beebe
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25017040
Aug 09, 2018 - Really ambitious goal: the integration of microtechnology with 3D cancer biology/drug screening/clinical testing.
Brendon M. Baker, Britta Trappmann, Sarah C. Stapleton, Esteban Toro, Christopher S. Chen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3lc50493j
Aug 09, 2018 - PDMS + ECM, another clever way to generate gradients.
C. Joanne Wang, Xiong Li, Benjamin Lin, Sangwoo Shim, Guo-li Ming, Andre Levchenko
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b713945d
Aug 09, 2018 - Almost a textbook-level example of gradient control in microfluidics.
The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research (2014)
Eric K. Sackmann, Anna L. Fulton, David J. Beebe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13118
Aug 09, 2018 - A review of progress, impact, and future directions in this field.
Three-dimensional microfluidic model for tumor cell intravasation and endothelial barrier function (2012)
Ioannis K. Zervantonakis, Shannon K. Hughes-Alford, Joseph L. Charest, John S. Condeelis, Frank B. Gertler, Roger D. Kamm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22869695
Aug 09, 2018 - A microfluidic-based assay to recreate the tumor-vascular interface in three-dimensions
Reconstituting organ-level lung functions on a chip (2010)
Dongeun Huh, Benjamin D. Matthews, Akiko Mammoto, Martín Montoya-Zavala, Hong Yuan Hsin, Donald E. Ingber
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20576885
Aug 09, 2018 - Biologically inspired design of a human breathing lung-on-a-chip microdevice.
In vitro microvessels for the study of angiogenesis and thrombosis (2012)
Ying Zheng, Junmei Chen, Michael Craven, Nak Won Choi, Samuel Totorica, Anthony Diaz-Santana, Pouneh Kermani, Barbara Hempstead, Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, José A. Lopez, Abraham D. Stroock
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22645376
Aug 09, 2018 - Microfluidic based in vitro model for biology and pathophysiology applications.
Monolithic Microfabricated Valves and Pumps by Multilayer Soft Lithography (2000)
Marc A. Unger
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.288.5463.113
Aug 09, 2018 - Multi-layer, build-in valves provides one of the means for on-chip fluid handling.
The origins and the future of microfluidics (2006)
George M. Whitesides
5 comments on PubPeer • http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05058
Aug 09, 2018 - A summary of the development and potential of the field in the early 21st century.
Soft Lithography (1998)
Younan Xia, George M. Whitesides
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980316)37:5<550::aid-anie550>3.0.co;2-g
Aug 09, 2018 - Introduction of soft lithography, one of the most widely used fabrication method of microfluidics.