Droplet microfluidic technology for single-cell high-throughput screening

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 34, 2009, Pages 14195-14200

  Brouzes, Eric ^a,b   Medkova, Martina ^a   Savenelli, Neal ^a   Marran, Dave ^a   Twardowski, Mariusz ^a   Hutchison, J Brian ^a   Rothberg, Jonathan M ^a   Link, Darren R ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^b,c   Samuels, Michael L ^a  

^a RainDance Technologies   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell encapsulation; Emulsion; Lab on a chip; Optical coding; Viability assay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISPERSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MISCIBILITY; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMULSIONS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; MITOMYCIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; U937 CELLS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70149096883     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903542106     Document Type: Article

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