September 2014

Metrigraphics

September 29, 2014

About the company: Manufacturer and provider of flexible circuits, thin film devices, optical components and electroformed structures. Contact Information: 50 Concord St., Wilmington, MA 01887 Phone: 1-800-261-2557 Website: [more...]

SIM Tech Microfluidics Foundry

September 29, 2014

About the company: The SIMTech Microfluidics Foundry (SMF) is established by the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) to spearhead innovations in value creation of polymer microfluidics manufacturing and to provide [more...]

Invenios

September 29, 2014

About the company: Manufacturer of microfluidics devices, MEMS, and 3D microstructures. It has MEMS foundry and processing materials include glass, silicon and glass-ceramic substrates. Contact Information: Invenios 320 North [more...]

Microfluidic Device System Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019

September 28, 2014

REPORT DESCRIPTION Microfluidic Device System Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019 Microfluidics is an evolving scientific field with numerous analytical applications and [more...]

Nanotechnologists Discover How to Carve Tunnels Beneath the Surface of Silicon Chips

September 28, 2014

One of the enabling technologies of the modern world is the ability to construct ever smaller devices out of silicon. At first, these devices were purely electronic—diodes, transistors, capacitors and the like. But more recently, [more...]

Dolomite and MicroTAS 2014 launch Video Competition to win $2,500 of microfluidic equipment

September 28, 2014

Microfluidics specialist Dolomite has teamed up with Lab on a Chip and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society to create the first ever MicroTAS Video Competition. Now in its 18th year, MicroTAS (the International Conference on [more...]

Dolomite-Microfluidics

September 28, 2014

About the company: Provider of standard microfluidic connectors and interfaces, customized microfluidic chips, flow control components (such as pumps, valves and sensors), and microfluidic systems and instruments for many applications [more...]

Lego like 3-D “LABS-ON-A-CHIP” with modular components

September 25, 2014

Modular fluidic and instrumentation components (MFICs, pronounced “em-fix”) developed by researchers at USC Viterbi Thanks to new LEGO®-like components developed by researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, it is now [more...]

A First Look at the Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX – Strong Performance in a Small Box

September 24, 2014

Over the past few years, we’ve been inundated with small, inexpensive cytometers with the promise that they can perform as well as the big boys. Up until now, I would have told you not to waste your time… up until now. In 2013, [more...]

$17 million from NIH funds next phase of Tissue Chip for Drug Screening

September 24, 2014

A neurovascular unit on a chip being developed by Vanderbilt University researchers. (Vanderbilt University Photo/ John Wikswo). The National Institutes of Health will award funds to support the next phase of its Tissue Chip for Drug [more...]

Microenvironment-on-chip for tumor-targeting research

September 23, 2014

Researchers have developed a chip capable of simulating a tumor’s “microenvironment” and plan to use the new system to test the effectiveness of nanoparticles and drugs that target cancer. The new system, called a [more...]

Klearia

September 19, 2014

About the company: Glass microfluidic chip developer and manufacturer for the field of flow chemical synthesis or analytical chemistry. Materials supplied for manufacturing include fused silica, Pyrex glass, D263 and Borofloat 33 etc. Low [more...]

Microfluidic Chipshop

September 18, 2014

About the company: Manufacturer and developer of MEMS actuators, sensors and 3D mechanical structures. As an OEM MEMS foundry, its capabilities include microfabrication, packaging, assembly and characterization of MEMS devices and [more...]

Micralyne

September 18, 2014

Trianja Technologies

September 18, 2014

About the company: Provide design, metrology, low volume and high volume manufacturing services for life science, biology and micro-optics. Products include micro-pore structures, micro and nano fluidic chips and micro molds as well as [more...]

uFluidix

September 18, 2014

About the company: Manufacturer of lab-on-a-chip platforms and solution provider for chip-processing. Platform materials include Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC), Cyclic Olefin Polymer (COP), Polycarbonate (PC), Polymethyl methacrylate [more...]

Wasatch Microfluidics

September 17, 2014

About the company: R&D of high throughput label free analysis platforms for biomolecular interaction analysis. Its main instruments include MX 96 SPRi and CFM Flow printing. Contact Information: 825 N 300 W Suite C325 Salt Lake [more...]

Biosensia

September 16, 2014

Biosensia is an in vitro diagnostics company that has developed a novel point of care platform, RapiPlex. Biosensia’s proprietary RapiPlex platform integrates three technologies: A multi-channel fluidic chip Robust, well-established [more...]

Home Microfluidics Kits for 21st-Century Kids

September 14, 2014

Manu Prakash of Stanford University, said he envisions kids trading successful reaction cards like baseball cards. In the prototype kids’ kit, players come up with a sequence of chemical reactions they want to make. They then punch [more...]

An integrated CMOS quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction lab-on-chip for point-of-care diagnostics

September 9, 2014

Considerable effort has recently been directed toward the miniaturization of quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction (qPCR) instrumentation in an effort to reduce both cost and form factor for point-of-care applications. Considerable gains [more...]