Microfluidics: Reframing biological enquiry

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 554-567

  Duncombe, Todd A ^a   Tentori, Augusto M ^a   Herr, Amy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CELL SPREADING; CYTOLOGY; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW RATE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LAMINAR FLOW; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84940173536     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm4041     Document Type: Review

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