The papers included in this Review were published between September 2015 and September 2017. The material was compiled using several strategies including extensive searches using Scifinder, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar. The contents of high impact journals were also scanned, including Analytical Chemistry, Lab-on-a-Chip, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Applied Physics Letters, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, Science, Biomedical Microdevices, RSC Advances, Electrophoresis, and Langmuir. Several hundred papers relating to the analysis of cells using microfluidics were examined. We have attempted to identify some of the most interesting and promising papers for this Review. Without a doubt, we have missed a few excellent papers and had to eliminate others based on space constraints
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.