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Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1432 - 1435, DOI: 10.1039/b808753a


Droplet-based microfluidic system for individual Caenorhabditis elegans assay

Weiwei Shi, Jianhua Qin, Nannan Ye and Bingcheng Lin


A droplet-based microfluidic system integrating a droplet generator and a droplet trap array is described for encapsulating individual Caenorhabditis elegans into a parallel series of droplets, enabling characterization of the worm behavior in response to neurotoxin at single-animal resolution.

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