Miniaturized Microfluidic Formats for Cell-Based High-Throughput Screening

Cell-based high-throughput screening (HTS) has become an important method used in pharmaceutical drug discovery, and is presently carried out using robots and micro-well plates. A microfluidic-based device for cell-based HTS using a traditional cell-culture protocol would be a key enabler in miniaturization and in increasing throughput without consequent detrimental effects on the physiological significance of the screen. In this paper, we …