Advances in Microfluidic Devices for Cell Handling and Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Microfluidics is a technology characterized by the engineered manipulation of fluids at the submillimeter scale, which dramatically improved diagnostics and biology research. Certain properties of microfluidic technologies, such as precise control of fluids in an assay and manipulation of particles at the microscale, made them a powerful tool for cell studies. Measurements at the level of a single cell are one of the most challenging and informative in systems biology. Advances in medicine, biotechnology, and agriculture—among other areas—are possible by these new approaches at an almost individual cell-scale.

Here, we announce a Special Issue entitled “Advances in Microfluidic Devices for Cell Handling and Analysis”, addressing recent advances in the instrumentation, fabrication, and characterization of microfluidic devices for this purpose. We invite submission of papers on developed microfluidic devices for cell handling, cell culture, cell analysis, based on imaging microscopy, metabolomics, proteomics, or genomics at the cell level.

Example topics may include: Novel system concepts and application proposals. Moreover, innovative methods in the microfabrication of chips and cell sorters, low cost disposable microdevices, microdevice characterization, novel flow cytometers, simulation of cell movement and behavior in microscale environment, cell cultivation and cell growing in microfluidic chambers, cell–cell interaction, up to date and high-throughput data collection platforms of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomic, etc., are of interest.

Dr. Abel Oliva
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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