Chemistry

Materials science

Programming language

Blood cell

Biochemistry

Telecommunications

Cell

Characterization (materials science)

Nanotechnology

Red blood cell

Red Cell

Biology

Biophysics

Cell sorting

Degradation (telecommunications)

Computer science

Sorting

Blood donor

Microfluidics

Immunology

Computer security

Lab on a Chip

Cell sorting using microfluidic ratchets enables sensitive and consistent characterization of donor red blood cell deformability. Using this capability, we show the degradation of red blood cell deformability during cold storage is donor-dependent.

Deformability based sorting of stored red blood cells reveals donor-dependent aging curves