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ArticleMicrosystems & nanoengineering2022

Scalable and automated CRISPR-based strain engineering using droplet microfluidics.

Kosuke Iwai, Maren Wehrs, Megan Garber, Jess Sustarich, Lauren Washburn, Zachary Costello, Peter W Kim, David Ando, William R Gaillard, Nathan J Hillson and 4 more

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Article in Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Droplet Digital CRISPR for Nucleic Acid Detection.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. DNA storage: The future direction for medical cold data storage.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  9. Periodic Flows in Microfluidics.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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  12. "Cell Disk" DNA Storage System Capable of Random Reading and Rewriting.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kosuke IwaiTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7395-3521
Maren WehrsBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Megan GarberBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Jess SustarichTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Lauren WashburnTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Zachary CostelloBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Peter W KimTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2465-0414
David AndoBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
William R GaillardTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Nathan J HillsonTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Paul D AdamsTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Aindrila MukhopadhyayBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6513-7425
Hector Garcia MartinBiofuels and Bioproducts Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4556-9685
Anup K SinghTechnology Division, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USSandia National Laboratories California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a droplet-based microfluidic system that enables CRISPR-based gene editing and high-throughput screening on a chip. The microfluidic device contains a 10 × 10 element array, and each element contains sets of electrodes for two electric field-actuated operations: electrowetting for merging droplets to mix reagents and electroporation for transformation. This device can perform up to 100 genetic modification reactions in parallel, providing a scalable platform for generating the large number of engineered strains required for the combinatorial optimization of genetic pathways and predictable bioengineering. We demonstrate the system's capabilities through the CRISPR-based engineering of two test cases: (1) disruption of the function of the enzyme galactokinase (

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EngineeringMicrofluidics

Identifiers

PMID35359611
PMCPMC8924257
OpenAlexW4220766577

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