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One of the most promising approaches to CTC separation from blood fractions involves the dielectrophoresis (DEP) technique. This research presents a new DEP-based bionic system designed for MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell isolation from white blood cell (WBC) subtypes with a viable approach to cell viability. This work leverages the principle that every cell type possesses a unique dielectric fingerprint. This dielectrophoresis microfluidic device is designed to act as a scanner, reading these fingerprints to achieve a continuous, label-free separation of cancer cells from blood components with a high efficiency. In the proposed system that consists of three different stages, the first stage allows for separating B-lymphocytes and Monocytes from Granulocytes and MDA-MB-231 cells. The separation of B-lymphocytes from Monocytes occurs in the second step, while the last step concerns the separation of Granulocytes and MDA-MB-231 cells. 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