What is this collection about?

This Collection aims to highlight the expanding capabilities of microfluidics in probing, manipulating, and engineering biological systems across scales.

Specifically, it showcases:

• Biosensing: Wearable and biofluid-handling platforms that enable continuous, non-invasive sampling and quantitative analysis of biofluids, expanding point-of-care diagnostics
• Biofabrication: 3D bioprinting and droplet-based microfluidics for producing systems with finely tunable spatial and physicochemical properties for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and advanced biomaterials
• Next‑generation microreactors: High‑performance microreactors provide biologically grounded, high‑throughput platforms for compartmentalization, controlled reaction environments, and screening, enabling new approaches to biochemical process modelling and microscale reaction engineering

Why is this collection important?

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well‑being for all at all ages. By driving innovation in biosensing, biofabrication, and microreactor technology, it helps to develop tools that can transform healthcare diagnostics, therapeutics, and biochemical manufacturing.

Why submit to a collection?

Collections like this one help promote high‑quality science. They are led by In‑House Editors who are experts in their fields and supported by a dedicated team of Commissioning Editors and Managing Editors at Springer Nature. Collection manuscripts typically see higher citations, downloads, and Altmetric scores, and provide a one‑stop‑shop on a cutting‑edge topic of interest.

Who is involved?

Nature Communications is edited by in-house professional editors.

Nature Biomedical Engineering is edited by in-house professional editors.

Nature Sensors is edited by in-house professional editors.

Communications Engineering is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members.

npj Biomedical Innovations is edited by a team of external academic editors.

Our editors work closely together to ensure the quality of our published papers and consistency in author experience.

How can I submit my paper?

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