A microfluidic pipette array for mechanophenotyping of cancer cells and mechanical gating of mechanosensitive channels

Water Permeation Drives Tumor Cell Migration in Confined Microenvironments

(2014) Kimberly M. Stroka et al.   CELL

Activation of a Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel in Mammalian Cells by Cytoskeletal Stress

(2014) Johanna Heureaux et al.   Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

A high-efficiency microfluidic device for size-selective trapping and sorting

(2014) Jinho Kim et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Piezo1 integration of vascular architecture with physiological force

(2014) Jing Li et al.   NATURE

Piezo1, a mechanically activated ion channel, is required for vascular development in mice

(2014) S. S. Ranade et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Feeling the hidden mechanical forces in lipid bilayer is an original sense

(2014) A. Anishkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microfluidic analysis of cellular deformability of normal and oxidatively damaged red blood cells

(2013) Joanne M. Kwan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY

Automated Micropipette Aspiration of Single Cells

(2013) Ehsan Shojaei-Baghini et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The Effect of the Endothelial Cell Cortex on Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements

(2013) R. Vargas-Pinto et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A serial micropipette microfluidic device with applications to cancer cell repeated deformation studies

(2013) Michael Mak et al.   Integrative Biology

Pinched-flow hydrodynamic stretching of single-cells

(2013) Jaideep S. Dudani et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Syringe-pump-induced fluctuation in all-aqueous microfluidic system implications for flow rate accuracy

(2013) Zida Li et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Molecular mechanisms of cellular mechanosensing

(2013) Tianzhi Luo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Characterizing deformability and surface friction of cancer cells

(2013) S. Byun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microfluidics-Based Assessment of Cell Deformability

(2012) Andrea Adamo et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Microfluidic biomechanical assay for red blood cells parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum

(2012) Quan Guo et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Microfluidic micropipette aspiration for measuring the deformability of single cells

(2012) Quan Guo et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Elucidating mechanical transition effects of invading cancer cells with a subnucleus-scaled microfluidic serial dimensional modulation device

(2012) Michael Mak et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

In vitro cell migration and invasion assays

(2012) Nina Kramer et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH

Cell Stiffness Is a Biomarker of the Metastatic Potential of Ovarian Cancer Cells

(2012) Wenwei Xu et al.   PLoS One

Hydrodynamic stretching of single cells for large population mechanical phenotyping

(2012) D. R. Gossett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanical Stiffness Grades Metastatic Potential in Patient Tumor Cells and in Cancer Cell Lines

(2011) V. Swaminathan et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

Optofluidic microsystems for chemical and biological analysis

(2011) Xudong Fan et al.   Nature Photonics

Mechanosensitive Channels: What Can They Do and How Do They Do It?

(2011) Elizabeth S. Haswell et al.   STRUCTURE

Evaluation of the influence of growth medium composition on cell elasticity

(2010) Mehdi Nikkhah et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Optimization of microfluidic single cell trapping for long-term on-chip culture

(2010) Stefan Kobel et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Dynamical organization of the cytoskeletal cortex probed by micropipette aspiration

(2010) J. Brugues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Role of cortical tension in bleb growth

(2009) J.-Y. Tinevez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microfluidic Electroporative Flow Cytometry for Studying Single-Cell Biomechanics

(2008) Ning Bao et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Deformability study of breast cancer cells using microfluidics

(2008) H. W. Hou et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Optical tweezers for single cells

(2008) H. Zhang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Traction force microscopy on-chip: shear deformation of fibroblast cells

(2008) Tamal Das et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Analyzing cell mechanics in hematologic diseases with microfluidic biophysical flow cytometry

(2008) Michael J. Rosenbluth et al.   LAB ON A CHIP