Cell sorting

Engineering

Biology

Microfluidics

Biomedical engineering

Materials science

Sorting

Telecommunications

Biochemistry

Computer science

Red blood cell

Immunology

Blood donor

Nanotechnology

Degradation (telecommunications)

Characterization (materials science)

Blood cell

Chemistry

Programming language

Cell

Biophysics

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