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The development of microfluidics has steadily increased in the past 20 years and has yielded integrated high-throughput analytical techniques at the microscale, providing novel lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems to be used for biological and chemical applications [1–5].

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Zagnoni, M., Cooper, J.M. (2012). Single-Cell Analysis in Microdroplets. In: Day, P., Manz, A., Zhang, Y. (eds) Microdroplet Technology. Integrated Analytical Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3265-4_9

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