Book excerpt: Ch. 1. A microscale bioinspired cochlear-like sensor / Robert D. White, Robert Littrell, and Karl Grosh -- ch. 2. Systematic evaluation of the efficiencies of proteins and chemicals in pharmaceutical applications / Morgan Hamon and Jong Wook Hong -- ch. 3. Microfluidic glucose sensors / Jithesh V. Veetil [und weitere] -- ch. 4. Applications of microfabrication and microfluidic techniques in mesenchymal stem cell research / Abhijit Majumder [und weitere] -- ch. 5. Patient-specific modeling of low-density lipoprotein transport in coronary arteries / Ufuk Olgac -- ch. 6. Point-of-care microdevices for global health diagnostics of infectious diseases / Sau Yin Chin [und weitere] -- ch. 7. Integrated microfluidic sample preparation for chip-based molecular diagnostics / Jane Y. Zhang [und weitere] -- ch. 8. Microfluidic devices for cellular proteomic studies / Yihong Zhan and Chang Lu -- ch. 9. Microfluidics for neuroscience: novel tools and future implications / Vivian M. Hernandez and P. Hande Ozdinler -- ch. 10. Microfluidics: on-chip platforms as in vitro disease models / Shan Gao, Erkin Seker, and Martin L. Yarmush -- ch. 11. Application of microfluidics in stem cell and tissue engineering / Sasha H. Bakhru, Christopher Highley, and Stefan Zappe -- ch. 12. Microfluidic "on-the-fly" fabrication of microstructures for biomedical applications / Edward Kang, Sau Fung Wong, and Sang-Hoon Lee -- ch. 13. Microfluidics as a promising tool toward distributed viral detection / Elodie Sollier and Dino Di Carlo -- ch. 14. Electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis for lab-on-a-chip (LOC) analyses / Yagmur Demircan, Gurkan Yilmaz, and Haluk Kulah -- ch. 15. Ultrasonic embossing of carbon nanotubes for the fabrication of polymer microfluidic chips for DNA sample purification / Puttachat Khuntontong, Min Gong, and Zhiping Wang -- ch. 16. Ferrofluidics / A. Rezzan Kose and Hur Koser -- ch. 17. Antibody-based blood bioparticle capture and separation using microfluidics for global health / ZhengYuan Luo [und weitere] -- ch. 18. Applications of quantum dots for fluorescence imaging in biomedical research / ShuQi Wang [und weitere]