2015

Gut-On-a-Chip Holds Clues for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

December 17, 2015

Roughly the size of a computer memory stick and made of clear flexible polymer, the human gut-on-a-chip was created by Harvard Univ.’s Wyss Institute in 2012. Three years later, researchers are utilizing the technology in hopes of [more...]

Novogene and Illumina to Co-Develop NGS Diagnostic System for Reproductive Health and Oncology Applications

December 17, 2015

Novogene, a leading global provider of genomic services and solutions, and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced they have entered into an agreement to jointly develop advanced clinical applications in the fields of reproductive [more...]

How Taste Is Perceived In The Brain

December 10, 2015

The bitter cortex (red) and sweet cortex (green) are about 2 millimeters apart in the mouse brain. (Charles S. Zuker, Ph.D./Columbia University Medical Center) People and other mammals rely on taste to guide food choices. For example, [more...]

Low Cost Paper Diagnostics Allows One Minute Blood Typing

December 10, 2015

GLIF enables quick and easy blood typing, without the need for laboratory equipment, expertise or interpretation of results. A collaboration between Monash University and Haemokinesis Pty Ltd has resulted in a momentous breakthrough in [more...]

One-Step Tumor Detection on a Chip

December 10, 2015

The molecule binds to the overexpressed cancer receptors on the cells. Cells show distinct behavior when bound to the surface. This behavior is quantified with image processing. (Credit: TECHNOLOGY) A team of researchers from the [more...]

Measuring Nanoscale Features with Fractions of Light

December 6, 2015

Drawing illustrates how tiny changes in wavy images scattered from lines in a grid-like array can be reconstructed when paired with advanced optical and computational techniques. Lines are 15 nanometers wide, 30 times smaller than the [more...]

Machining Precision Microfluidic Channels

December 5, 2015

Microfluidics combines expertise in engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, and biotechnology to design systems in which extremely small volumes of fluids are processed through tiny channels milled into a device [more...]

3D Printing Tips and Tech: Get to Know Those Acronyms

December 5, 2015

With the rapid pervasiveness of 3D printing, confusion has begun to set in among some people regarding the different processes. Simon Caiger , Product Manager for JK Lasers, says there’s so much misunderstanding, organizations are [more...]

How to Smooth 3D-Printed Parts

December 5, 2015

Many high-quality parts produced on 3D printers can be sanded by hand to eliminate layer lines and produce a smooth finish. There’s a misconception that 3D printing cannot make the kind of smooth and polished parts available from [more...]

TSI Condensation Particle Counter

December 5, 2015

PRODUCT DETAILS Condensation Particle Counter Model 3772 is a compact, rugged, and full-featured instrument that detects airborne particles down to 10nm at an aerosol flow rate of 1.0L/min, over a concentration range from 0 to 104 [more...]

Google Has Filed a Patent For A Needle-free Blood Draw

December 5, 2015

Google might be joining the needle-free blood test party. The company has filed a patent for a “needle-free blood draw” system that can be used either as a wearable on a person’s wrist or as a hand-held device that takes [more...]

Expert Discusses Field of Flow Cytometry 50 Years After Its Invention

December 5, 2015

A cell sorter built by Mack Fulwyler has been preserved by Purdue Professor J. Paul Robinson. Fulwyler is credited with creating the first cell sorter in 1965, which started the field of flow cytometry. This instrument, which Fulwyler [more...]

World of Microfluidics European Micro Cup Explainer Videos

December 2, 2015

The research field of Microfluidics involves the development of technologies for the transport and processing of liquids in structures whose size is in the micrometer range. These technologies form the basis for a variety of applications [more...]

Microfluidics, Could Soon Cool Your Clothes

December 2, 2015

THE idea came to Ralph Liedert while he was sweltering in the Californian sunshine, having been standing with his daughter for over an hour in a queue for a ride at Disneyland. What, he thought, if his T-shirt had a cooling system he could [more...]

Incorporating Electronics Into Medical Device Consumables

November 29, 2015

In a simple world, medical consumables are made of plastic and plastic only. Electronic components would remain separate in the durable device. In the real world, though, that’s rarely the case. You might want to install fluid pumping [more...]

Sequencing Algae’s Genome May Aid Bio-fuel Production

November 29, 2015

Close-up view of Chrysochromulina tobin. (Image: Rose Ann Cattolico) There’s an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world’s oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They are so numerous that their [more...]

An Optofluidic Chip for Single-cell Sorting Based on Mechanical Properties

November 29, 2015

A monolithic optofluidic chip fabricated by femtosecond laser extracts highly metastatic cells from a heterogeneous population on the basis of optical stretching measurements. The past decade has seen an increasing interest in the analysis [more...]

Determining What Stays on the Device, and What Goes in the Consumable

November 29, 2015

Image credit: Eric Schneider, Keytech Inc Because most medical devices include both a durable instrument and a consumable, product developers often face a pivotal question during the early design process: What stays on the instrument [more...]

Detecting Cancer Cells Before They Form Metastases

November 25, 2015

Target cells (green) stick to the microarray platform (red). (Credit: Michael Hirtz / KIT) Many tumors spread: Single cancer cells migrate with blood flow through the body before they settle in new tissue. In this way, metastases may be [more...]

Dime-Sized Electric Chip Removes Nanoparticles from Blood with Ease

November 25, 2015

An artist’s representation of the nanoparticle removal chip developed by researchers in Professor Michael Heller’s lab at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. An oscillating electric field (purple arcs) separates [more...]