Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Large-scale microfluidics providing high-resolution and high-throughput screening of Caenorhabditis elegans poly-glutamine aggregation model

  • Sudip Mondal,
  • Evan Hegarty,
  • Chris Martin,
  • Sertan Kutal Gökçe,
  • Navid Ghorashian,
  • Adela Ben-Yakar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13023
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Large-scale screens on whole animals could facilitate drug discovery, but are technically challenging. Here, Mondal et al. develop a microfluidic chip combined with an automated imaging platform that enables high-throughput, high-resolution screening of Caenorhabditis elegansdisease models.