Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small subpopulation (often 1-3%) within the tumor and are capable to regenerate malignant cells. It is believed that this small subpopulation is responsible for forming tumors. They are highly resistant to drugs and extremely tumorigenic and metastatic. Therefore, a...
Personalized medicine aims at providing individual patients with a therapy tailored to their features. It can significantly increase the body’s response to the medicine and the therapeutic treatments and is even more pronounced in patients with cancer. The two arms of the personalized medicine are...
An organoid is a 3D cellular structure aimed at mimicking a specific organ. Organoids are stem-cell-derived replicas of organs that are capable of self-organizing and recapitulating the structural and functional characteristics of their matching part in the body. Although organoids bring about a promise to improve...
A crucial task for sample preparation is nucleic acid amplification which is a process at which the nucleic acid content of a sample with a particular sequence is amplified extensively to be readable using read-out techniques such as fluorescent imaging. Nucleic acid amplification tests hold paramount...
COVID-19 is now announced pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) causing many countries to declare emergency state and shutdown public places. Diagnostic tools can play a key role in decreasing the spreading rate and controlling the virus. Microfluidics has the potential to offer rapid...