Microfluidic Technology in Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 July 2026 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microfluidics; COMSOL; electrokinetic and Numerical simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics now shapes oncology by making experiments and diagnostics possible at volumes and time scales that conventional platforms cannot reach. In practice, this means high-efficiency capture of circulating tumor cells and extracellular vesicles for minimally invasive genotyping; droplet and digital assays that quantify rare mutations and methylation events; tumor-on-a-chip systems that recapitulate hypoxia, shear, and stromal crosstalk; and single-cell barcoding that resolves intratumoral heterogeneity and drug-tolerance states. These tools are beginning to influence clinical decisions from monitoring minimal residual disease and treatment response to engineering immune cell products and optimizing combination screens.
This Special Issue sets the stakes for translation: sensitivity versus throughput, device standardization and interoperability, biomaterial and reagent compatibility, data integration with pathology and imaging, reproducibility across laboratories, and the regulatory evidence needed for bedside adoption. We seek contributions that move beyond proof-of-concept through means such as head-to-head benchmarks, clinically anchored studies, robust modeling of transport and mechanics, scalable manufacturing methods, and open protocols or datasets that others can reproduce.
Dr. Lanju Mei
Dr. Diganta Dutta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer cells separation
- cancer cells isolation
- cancer cells treatment
- lab-on-a-chip technology
- bio microfluidics
- biomedical microdevices
- biosensors, and detection in microfluidics
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