Robert Bright

Advances in microfluidic platforms for tumor cell phenotyping: from bench to bedside Heterogeneities among tumor cells significantly contribute towards cancer progression and therapeutic inefficiency. Hence, understanding the nature of cancer through liquid biopsies and isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has gained considerable interest over the years. Microfluidics has emerged as one of the most popular platforms for performing liquid biopsy applications.

Mulholland Drive runs for fifty miles along a ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1,400ft above sea level. To the west it terminates at the Pacific Ocean and to the east at the Cahuenga Pass, while the road divides the San Fernando Valley in the north from the Los Angeles Basin in the south. Stand at one of its overlooks at night and the city is laid out beneath you like a mycelial network, dotted with spores of light.