Droplet Microfluidics for Single-Cell Analysis

In biological research, precise liquid handling is essential. While tubes and microwell plates have long been the standard for sample analysis, the growing demand for higher throughput and efficiency has revealed the limitations of these traditional reaction vessels. This has led to the development of a more advanced liquid handling technology—droplet microfluidics.

Droplet microfluidics compartmentalizes reactions into picoliter-volume aqueous droplets, dramatically scaling up experiments to thousands of reactions per second while minimizing reagent use and retaining the key benefits of traditional methods. As a result, droplet microfluidics has become a cornerstone for modern high-throughput research.