Micromotors Powered by Stomach Acid
SEM image of micromotors ( Image Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid [more...]
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January 2015
Rapid Test Kit Detects Dengue Antibodies from Saliva
This is a 3-D model of IBN’s rapid test kit that detects dengue-specific antibodies. (Credit: IBN, A*STAR) Finding out whether you have been infected with dengue may soon be as [more...]
Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets
Banerjee, A.; Noh, J.H.; Liu, Y.; Rack, P.D.; Papautsky, I. Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets. Micromachines 2015, 6, 172-185; doi:10.3390/mi6020172. In this work, we demonstrate continuous and discrete functions [more...]
iChip: The Future of Antibiotic Discovery
Two weeks ago, a team led by scientists from Northeastern University published a study describing a new class of antibiotics called teixobactin, which they found in the soil of a field [more...]
10X Genomics Emerges With $80M
10X Genomics first product (Image Credit: 10x Genomics) Making Illumina’s industry-leading gene sequencing machines better? There’s an app for that. That’s the shorthand pitch from fresh-from-stealth sequencing company 10X Genomics, [more...]
New Method to Generate Arbitrary Optical Pulses
This is an example of custom-shaped pulses at 100-GHz repetition rate. Image Credit: Univ. of Southampton Scientists from the Univ. of Southampton have developed a new technique to generate more [more...]
New Laser-patterning Technique Turns Metals into Supermaterials
A femtosecond laser created detailed hierarchical structures in the metals, as shown in this SEM image of the platinum surface. (Image credit: The Guo Lab/University of Rochester) By zapping ordinary [more...]
Innovative Photonic Crystal Nanolaser Biosensor Detects Adsorption of Biomolecules
This image shows a top view of the group’s nanolaser, in which the center narrow slot (horizontal line) is the main part of the sensor. The periodic holes form a [more...]
Novel Microfluidic Device Allows Electroporation of Stem Cells During Differentiation
Photo credit: Prof. Horacio D. Espinosa and Prof. John A. Kessler at Northwestern University, USA. Electroporation is a powerful technique in molecular biology. By using an electrical pulse to create [more...]
Tiny Microfluidic Device Helps Analyze Behavior of Blood from Sickle Cell Disease Patients
Patients with sickle cell disease often suffer from painful attacks known as vaso-occlusive crises, during which their sickle-shaped blood cells get stuck in tiny capillaries, depriving tissues of needed oxygen. [more...]
Why Rain Has That Distinctive Smell
Aerosol generation after drop impingement on porous media is a three-step process, consisting of bubble formation, bubble growth, and bubble bursting. Image Credit: Youngsoo Joung, MIT Ever notice an earthy [more...]
EVG Nanoimprint Lithography Technology
A 6″ full area nanoimprinted wafer, processed by EVG NIL solutions EVG’s SmartNIL technology stands out the company in the UV nanoimprint lithography market. In conjunction with a multi-use softstamp [more...]
Manipulating nanoribbons at the molecular level
Figure 1: Bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons from molecular building blocks 1 and 2. (a) The resulting ribbon, or heterojunction, has varied widths as a result of different width molecules [more...]
Microfluidic Device Observes T Cell Interaction
MIT researchers have designed a microfluidic device that allows them to precisely trap pairs of cells (one red, one green) and observe how they interact over time. (Credit: Burak Dura) [more...]
Microfluidic Method for Primary Neuron Culture and Analysis
Figure 1: Rat primary cortical neurons were seeded and cultured on the microfluidic plate for 21 days, and the medium was replenished every day until Day 5. After Day 5, [more...]
Ultrasonic Welded Microfluidic Device for In vitro Diagnostics
Welding with ultrasonic vibrations is a cost-effective and safe method for joining the two halves of a polystyrene microfluidic test chip in such a way that the function is assured. [more...]
Sorting Machine – Skittles and M &M
Skittles M&M’s Sorting Machine ( image credit: IVC wiki) The machine is fully autonomous and will sort an entire 1.5kg/56oz bag in approx. 5 minutes. It is made of an [more...]
A Simple and Low Cost Method to Fabricate NOA Microfluidic Chips
Microfluidic chips are often made of silicon or glass which presents the drawbacks of being relatively expensive, time consuming and has limitations to the geometries that can be realized. PMMA [more...]
Material Incorporates DNA for a New Class of Biosensors
A lipid membrane functionalised with DNA-linkers. (Credit: Lorenzo Di Michele) A new responsive material ‘glued’ together with short strands of DNA, and capable of translating thermal and chemical signals into [more...]
Top Flow Cytometry Instruments, Reagents and Software To Look Forward to In 2015
I. Instrumentation The field of flow cytometry is seeing various trends in instrumentation–on one end are smaller, more compact and more powerful instruments for the high end needs of researchers, [more...]
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