Spatial manipulation with microfluidics

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Lin, Benjamin ^a   Levchenko, Andre ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Chemotaxis; Gradients; Microfluidics; Soft lithography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973534069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00039     Document Type: Review

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