One drop at a time: Toward droplet microfluidics as a versatile tool for single-cell analysis

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Rakszewska, Agata ^a   Tel, Jurjen ^b   Chokkalingam, Venkatachalam ^a   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DROPS; MICROFLUIDICS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; THROUGHPUT;

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS; DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; MOLECULAR INFORMATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 84927772321     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.86     Document Type: Review

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