Deshmukh, Shreya S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0085-0297
Shakya, Bikash http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9100-0660
Chen, Anna
Durmus, Naside Gozde
Greenhouse, Bryan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0287-9111
Egan, Elizabeth S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2112-7700
Demirci, Utkan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-1590
Funding for this research was provided by:
Stanford Spectrum (SPADA) Seed Grant
Article History
Received: 28 August 2020
Accepted: 29 April 2021
First Online: 8 June 2021
Competing interests
: U.D. is a founder of and has an equity interest in: (i) DxNow Inc., a company that is developing sperm sorting and microfluidic IVF tools and imaging technologies for point-of-care diagnostic solutions, (ii) Koek Biotech, a company that is developing microfluidic technologies for clinical solutions, (iii) Levitas Inc., a company focusing on developing microfluidic products for sorting rare cells from liquid biopsy in cancer and other diseases, (iv) Hillel Inc., a company bringing microfluidic cell phone testing tools to home settings, and (v) Mercury Biosciences, a company developing vesicle isolation technologies. U.D.’s interests were viewed and managed in accordance with the conflict-of-interest policies. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.