PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Russell H. Cole
AU  - Shi-yang Tang
AU  - Christian A. Siltanen
AU  - Payam Shahi
AU  - Jesse Q. Zhang
AU  - Sean Poust
AU  - Zev J. Gartner
AU  - Adam R. Abate
TI  - Printed Droplet Microfluidics for on demand dispensing of picoliter droplets and cells
AID  - 10.1101/167163
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 167163
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/21/167163.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/21/167163.full
AB  - Although the elementary unit of biology is the cell, high throughput methods for the microscale manipulation of cells and reagents are limited. The existing options are either slow, lack single cell specificity, or utilize fluid volumes out of scale with those of cells. Here, we present Printed Droplet Microfluidics, a technology to dispense picoliter droplets and cells with deterministic control. The core technology is a fluorescence-activated droplet sorter coupled to a specialized substrate that together act as a picoliter droplet and single cell printer, enabling high throughput generation of intricate arrays of droplets, cells, and microparticles. Printed Droplet Microfluidics provides a programmable and robust technology to construct arrays of defined cell and reagent combinations and to integrate multiple measurement modalities together in a single assay.