Droplet microfluidics for single-molecule and single-cell analysis in cancer research, diagnosis and therapy

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-153

  Kang, Dong Ku ^a,b   Monsur Ali, M ^a,b   Zhang, Kaixiang ^a,b,c   Pone, Egest J ^a,b   Zhao, Weian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; Cancer research; Cancer therapy; Circulating tumor cell; Detection; Diagnostics; Droplet microfluidics; Drug screening; Single cell analysis; Single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DISEASES; DROPS; ERROR DETECTION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; RESEARCH;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS; DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS; DRUG SCREENING; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS;

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE MOLECULE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901618990     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.03.006     Document Type: Review

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