Micro/Nanofluidic Devices for Single Cell Analysis, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Cells are the most fundamental building blocks for most of life forms, and always play a significant role in coordinating with one another to perform systematic functions in living creatures. However the behaviors of cell to cell or cell to the environment with their organelles and their intracellular physical/biochemical/biological effects are still unknown. To insight this interaction, ensemble measurement for millions of cells together cannot provide the proper information, such as stem cell proliferation and differentiation, neural network coordination, and cardiomyocytes synchronization. Thus single cells analysis has come into frontier research since last few decades. To analyze the cellular function, single cells analysis (SCA) can be conducted by employing miniaturized devices, whose dimension is similar to that of single cells. Micro/nanofludic device with the power to manipulate and detect biosamples, reagents, or biomolecules in micro/nano scale can well fulfill this requirement for single cells analysis. The analysis can be performed by combining capillary electrophoresis (CE) with laser induced fluorescence (LIF) detection methods, electrochemical detection (ED), flow cytometry, mass spectrometer etc. However this powerful technology can provide specific information about cell interactions with high spatial and temporal resolution. Micro-nanofludic device is not only useful for cell manipulation, cell lysis, cell separation but also it can easily control biochemical, electrical, mechanical parameters for SCA analysis.

This special issue will invite manuscripts conducting researches on integrated micro or nano systems dealing with single cell manipulation, injection, separation, lysis of single cell, dynamics of single cell with the use of micro/nanofluidic devices combined with various detection schemes. The role of single cell analysis is recognized as one of the important pathways for system biology, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics and fluxomics and potentially leads to paradigm shift. The discussion of application of single cell analysis for biocatalysis, metabolic, bioprocess engineering and the future challenge for single cell analysis with their advantages and limitations are also welcome to be included in the manuscripts.

Dr. Tuhin Subhra Santra
Prof. Fan-Gang Tseng
Guest Editors

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