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Microfluidic Approach to Cell Handling and Measurement

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Microfluidic technologies enable us to analyze cells with much higher resolution in space and time. The approaches are mostly realized by making use of numerous advantageous features of microfluidic systems, such as relatively small dimensions, low Reynolds number flow, etc. In this chapter, the examples of microfluidic approach to cell handling and measurement highlighting its advantageous features will be described. It will be shown that the microfluidic approach is among the promising methods for the future experimentation in biomedical applications.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to their collaborators; Dr. Kiyotaka Shiba at Cancer Research Foundation (Tokyo, Japan), Dr. Hidenori Akutsu at National Center for Child Health and Development (Tokyo, Japan) for their kind help, and fruitful discussions.

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    Jiro Kawada, Shohei Kaneda, Soo Hyeon Kim & Teruo Fujii

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Kawada, J., Kaneda, S., Kim, S.H., Fujii, T. (2016). Microfluidic Approach to Cell Handling and Measurement. In: Sone, J., Tsuji, S. (eds) Intelligent Nanosystems for Energy, Information and Biological Technologies. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56429-4_6

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