Development of droplet microfluidics enabling high-throughput single-cell analysis

Molecules

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Wen, Na ^a   Zhao, Zhan ^a   Fan, Beiyuan ^a   Chen, Deyong ^a   Men, Dong ^b   Wang, Junbo ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Droplet microfluidics; High throughput; Single cell encapsulation; Single cell genetic analysis; Single cell proteomic analysis; Single cell screening

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DEVICES; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979300860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules21070881     Document Type: Review

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