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A Microfluidic Chip for the Versatile Chemical Analysis of Single Cells
Published on: October 15, 2013
The latest advances in high content screening in microfluidic devices
Weiyu Liu1, Jingyu Wang1, Huibo Qi1
1MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Introduction:
High content screening (HCS) is an important tool for drug screening. However, the potential of HCS in the field of drug screening and synthetic biology is limited by traditional culture platforms that use multi-well plates, which have several disadvantages. Recently, microfluidic devices have gradually been applied in HCS, which significantly reduces experimental costs, increases assay throughput, and improves the accuracy of drug screening.
Areas Covered:
This review provides an overview of microfluidic devices for high-content screening in drug discovery platforms, including droplet, microarray, and organs-on-chip technologies.
Expert Opinion:
HCS is a promising technology increasingly adopted by the pharmaceutical industry as well as academic researchers for drug discovery and screening. In particular, microfluidic-based HCS shows unique advantages, and microfluidics technology has promoted significant advancements and broader usage and applicability of HCS in drug discovery. With the integration of stem cell, gene editing technology, and other biological technologies, microfluidics-based HCS will expand the application scope of personalized disease and drug screening models. The authors anticipate rapid developments in this field, with microfluidic-based approaches becoming increasingly important in HCS applications.
