August 2014

IMEC On-Chip Single Cell Sorter

August 27, 2014

Imagine a tool the size of a credit card that can analyze single cells with a throughput of more than 2 million cells per second. Moreover, the tool retains each cell of interest for downstream molecular analysis. The first steps towards [more...]

Flow Cytometry Tutorials: Doublet Discrimination

August 27, 2014

This video demonstrates how to exclude doublets from your Flow Cytometry data analysis. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to understand: What doublets and clumps are? Why do we need to gate out doublets and clumps? How to [more...]

Sorting Cancer Cells with Acoustic Waves

August 27, 2014

Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as they flow through a tiny channel. Their device, about the size of a dime, could [more...]

Micro-machining a medical mold of hardened steel on Makino vertical machining center

August 24, 2014

A Makino V22 vertical machining center is hardmilling an eight-cavity medical staple mold composed of 420 stainless steel (52-54 HRc). The mold was hardmilled completely to three one-thousandths accuracy using a six one-thousandths [more...]

Phototransistor-based optoelectronic tweezers for dynamic cell manipulation in cell culture media

August 24, 2014

Video relates to research article in Lab on a chip. Hsan-yin Hsu et al. “Phototransistor-based optoelectronic tweezers for dynamic cell manipulation in cell culture [more...]