Movie S1.

Particles remain trapped during solution exchange under continuous flow. Trypan blue was used as the new solution exchange reagent to view flow conditions. The newly introduced reagent initially follows the main streamlines in the center and gradually diffuses into and fills the reservoirs in about 4 seconds. 20μm beads were initially trapped in plain PBS, they remained trapped after trypan blue was infused for 4 seconds.

Functional profiling of circulating tumor cells with an integrated vortex capture and single-cell protease activity assay

Manjima Dhar, Jeffrey Nam Lam, Tonya Walser, Steven M. Dubinett, Matthew B. Rettig, and Dino Di Carlo

PNAS. 2018. 115:9986-9991 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803884115