November 2014

Little Things Factory

November 26, 2014

About the Company: Designer and manufacturer of microfluidic components and systems in glass, quartz and silicon substrates with applications in the field of life science, chemistry and medicine. Typical products and solutions include [more...]

Nanoparticles infiltrate, kill cancer cells from within

November 25, 2014

Schematic of nanoparticle construction (Credit: University of Cincinnati) Conventional treatment seeks to eradicate cancer cells by drugs and therapy delivered from outside the cell, which may also affect (and potentially harm) nearby [more...]

Oxford Laser, Inc.

November 24, 2014

About the company: Designer and manufacturer of laser micromachining and high speed imaging system. Applications of high speed imaging systems include spray pattern and plume geometry measurement, particle size measurement and particle [more...]

High Resolution Cell Positioning for Enhancing Deformability Mapping

November 24, 2014

Developed Cell Positioning System by Shinya Sakuma et al. from Osaka University, Japan The dispersion of cell deformability mapping is affected not only by the resolution of the sensing system, but also by cell deformability itself. In [more...]

Flexible electronic sensors for health diagnostics

November 24, 2014

Paper-based, inexpensive sensors could make medical diagnostic tests more accessible. (Credit: American Chemical Society) Flexible electronic sensors based on paper — an inexpensive material — have the potential to some day cut [more...]

microLIQUID

November 17, 2014

About the company: microLIQUID is a chip vendor for fabricating microfluidic structures, integrate electrodes on microstructures and chip interface. Handling materials for microfluidic structures include polymers ,such as SU-8, COC, [more...]

Optimizing Graphene Characterization

November 16, 2014

Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb latticemade of carbon atoms (Credit: Wikipedia) Before 2004, when Geim and Novoselov demonstrated the existence of graphene, a single-atomic-layer-thick crystal of carbon, physicists didn’t believe [more...]

Microfluidic Device Catching Roaming Cancer Cells

November 16, 2014

This is an interesting old video found on youtube which talking about the research of German Drazer, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University and his doctoral student, Jorge A. Bernate [more...]

Sorting bloodborne cancer cells to better predict spread of disease

November 16, 2014

Devices that capture circulating tumor cells from the blood of cancer patients are currently in use, but they cannot differentiate among the different types of tumor cells. Cancer researchers and doctors are interested in methods that [more...]

Sphere fluidics

November 3, 2014

About the company: Sphere fluidics develops products for use in high-throughtput analysis of single cells analysis, characterization and generation of their genetic, transcriptomic and proteomic profiles in miniaturized volume (pictoliter [more...]

Takasago-Fluidics

November 3, 2014

About the company: Japanese Manufacturer of miniature chemically inert valves and pumps. It develops and manufactures precise fluidic control related components, including solenoid valves, pinch valves, air-operated valves, diaphragm [more...]

MicroTAS 2014 Workshop – Inertial Microfluidics

November 2, 2014

Professor Dino Di Carlo from Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles gave a workshop on using inertial microfluidics to manipulate fluids and particles on Oct 26th at MicroTAS 2014. The presentation covered the [more...]

Precision 3D Printing by Solidscape

November 2, 2014

With new stories announced daily, the vast opportunities within the 3D printing technology seem to be as endless as the new capabilities. An intriguing space, of course, is the use of 3D printing in medical applications. One 3D printer [more...]

Microfluidic Deformability-Based Cell Separation

November 2, 2014

Cell deformability is an important emerging bio-marker for a number of disease states. Deformability is indicative of underlying membrane, cytoskeletal or nuclear changes associated with a wide range of cell functional changes, such as [more...]

Microfluidic platforms with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic channels

November 2, 2014

Megaridis and his team from University of Illinois at Chicago published a paper ” Wettability patterning for high-rate, pumpless fluid transport on open, non-planar microfluidic platforms” on Lab Chip ( 2014,14,1538-1550, [more...]