Microfluidic Fabrication of Cell and Tissue Architecture
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The microfluidic technology has progressed remarkably with a variety of applications in analytical chemistry, cell biology, point of care diagnosis and particle handling [1]. This technology is, I think, also powerful for the construction of miniaturized structure composed of biological components. In this talk, I will discuss how we can reconstruct the biological architectures such as cellular membrane and 3D tissue-like structure by using the laminar-flow or droplet microfluidic technology.
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