Biofilms are complex consortiums of microbiomes that can adhere to each other and to surfaces. Biofilms can develop a shield against antibiotics and the host immune systems and thus can be very challenging to treat. A research group from Spain has now developed a microfluidic...
Circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters have higher potential for extravasation and have been shown to have elevated metastatic potential than single CTCs that can reach up to 100-fold. CTC-neutrophil clusters are composed of single neutrophils and cancer cells with a pairing ratio from 1:1 to...
Soil microorganisms are of significant importance or nutrition cycling and regulation of carbon storage. The soil structure is composed of partly interconnected pores that these microorganisms live in and constantly reshape. The function and the effect of the microbes on the soil can be very...
In a recently published paper in the Lab on a chip journal, a research team from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) reported a microfluidic biomarker barcoding device for multiplexed immunohistochemistry for high-throughput analysis of a tissue microarray. “We present a multiplexed microfluidic immunohistochemistry...
When it comes to single-cell analysis, microfluidics is one of the major candidates. A recent microfluidic device is expanding the microfluidic single-cell analysis toolbox. As seen in the Analytical Chemistry journal, the microfluidic chip took advantage of acoustically excited structures along with oscillating microbubbles for...