Issue 3, 2019

A continuous-flow acoustofluidic cytometer for single-cell mechanotyping

Abstract

The biophysical properties of cells such as their compressibility have been found to be closely related to disease progression such as cancer development and metastasis. As cancer cells are heterogeneous, rapid and high-throughput evaluation of cell biophysical properties at single-cell resolution is needed to assess their potential as biomarkers for cancer staging and prognosis. Acoustofluidics has shown promise as a contactless method for accurately measuring cell biophysical properties; however, previously reported methods had relatively low throughput due to their requirement of no-flow conditions. This work presents a high-throughput continuous flow-based acoustofluidic cell mechanotyping method at single-cell resolution that retains the advantage of simplicity and low-cost.

Graphical abstract: A continuous-flow acoustofluidic cytometer for single-cell mechanotyping

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 7 2018
Accepted
07 1 2019
First published
10 1 2019

Lab Chip, 2019,19, 387-393

Author version available

A continuous-flow acoustofluidic cytometer for single-cell mechanotyping

H. Wang, Z. Liu, D. M. Shin, Z. G. Chen, Y. Cho, Y. Kim and A. Han, Lab Chip, 2019, 19, 387 DOI: 10.1039/C8LC00711J

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