Editing Microfluidics (section)

===Cell behavior===
{{Main|Microfluidic cell culture}}
The ability to create precise and carefully controlled [[chemoattractant]] gradients makes microfluidics the ideal tool to study motility,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hochstetter A, Stellamanns E, Deshpande S, Uppaluri S, Engstler M, Pfohl T | title = Microfluidics-based single cell analysis reveals drug-dependent motility changes in trypanosomes | journal = Lab on a Chip | volume = 15 | issue = 8 | pages = 1961–1968 | date = April 2015 | pmid = 25756872 | doi = 10.1039/C5LC00124B | url = https://edoc.unibas.ch/41485/1/C5LC00124B.pdf }}</ref> [[chemotaxis]] and the ability to evolve / develop resistance to antibiotics in small populations of microorganisms and in a short period of time. These microorganisms including [[bacteria]]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ahmed T, Shimizu TS, Stocker R | title = Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis | journal = Integrative Biology | volume = 2 | issue = 11–12 | pages = 604–629 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 20967322 | doi = 10.1039/C0IB00049C | hdl = 1721.1/66851 }}</ref> and the broad range of organisms that form the marine [[microbial loop]],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Seymour JR, Simó R, Ahmed T, Stocker R | title = Chemoattraction to dimethylsulfoniopropionate throughout the marine microbial food web | journal = Science | volume = 329 | issue = 5989 | pages = 342–345 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20647471 | doi = 10.1126/science.1188418 | s2cid = 12511973 | bibcode = 2010Sci...329..342S }}</ref> responsible for regulating much of the oceans' biogeochemistry.

Microfluidics has also greatly aided the study of [[durotaxis]] by facilitating the creation of durotactic (stiffness) gradients.