A High-Throughput Microfluidic Platform for Mammalian Cell Transfection and Culturing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Woodruff, Kristina ^a   Maerkl, Sebastian J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HISTIDINE KINASE; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PLASMIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84963641628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23937     Document Type: Article

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