ReviewBiosensors2025
Droplet-Based Microfluidics in Single-Bacterium Analysis: Advancements in Cultivation, Detection, and Application.
Review in Biosensors, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microfluidic enrichment of proteolytic microbial consortia from sewage sludge.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Microfluidics in Intelligent Fresh Produce Preservation and Detection: From Precision Sensing to Active Delivery Systems.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026Review
- Droplet microfluidics with image texture quantification for detection of rare antibiotic-resistant subpopulations from bloodstream infections.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- From Single Cells to Silicon: Emerging Technologies Transforming Monoclonal Antibody Discovery.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Generic microfluidic platform for digital droplet-based bioassays.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Microfluidics to Meet Antibiotic Resistance: A Growing Research Frontier.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Microorganisms exhibit remarkable diversity, making their comprehensive characterization essential for understanding ecosystem functioning and safeguarding human health. However, traditional culture-based methods entail inherent limitations for resolving microbial heterogeneity, isolating slow-growing microorganisms, and accessing uncultivated microbes. Conversely, droplet-based microfluidics enables a high-throughput and precise platform for single-bacterium manipulation by physically isolating individual cells within microdroplets. This technology presents a transformative approach to overcoming the constraints of conventional techniques. This review outlines the fundamental principles, recent research advances, and key application domains of droplet-based microfluidics, with a particular focus on innovations in single-bacterium encapsulation, sorting, cultivation, and functional analysis. Applications such as antibiotic susceptibility testing, enzyme-directed evolution screening, microbial interaction studies, and the cultivation of novel bacterial species are discussed, underscoring the technology's broad potential in microbiological research and biotechnology.
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