February 2015

Optical Nanoantennas Set the Stage for a NEMS Lab-on-a-chip Revolution

February 25, 2015

This is a schematic representation of unidirectional cubic nanoantennas inducing directionality to omnidirectional nanoemitters (light sources, e.g., spasers, quantum dots), to precisely focus light with adjustable beam width and [more...]

Innovations in Cell Culture Technology Drive Drug Discovery Studies

February 25, 2015

Figure 1. Moat design significantly reduces evaporation during a seven-day incubation when compared to a standard plate. (Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific) Scientists around the world make use of cell culture techniques on a daily [more...]

Microfluidics Makes Physical Keys Bubble Up From The Surface of a Touch Screen- $149 Phorm iPad Mini case

February 22, 2015

Tactus is still exploring tablets and mobile phones with the reappearing keyboard built into the screens ( Image Credit: James Martin/CNET) At first glance, Phorm looks like any another Apple iPad Mini case. But if you push its large [more...]

Microfluidic Cell Sorting: A Review of the Advances in the Cell Seperation

February 21, 2015

Authors: C. Wyatt Shields IV, Catherine D. Reyes and Gabriel P. López from Duke University Accurate and high throughput cell sorting is a critical enabling technology in molecular and cellular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. [more...]

Graphene Structures Created with 3D Printing

February 21, 2015

Image Credit: Advanced Materials/Esther García-Tuñon et al. Researchers have created a graphene composite paste that can be 3D printed into complex, patterned structures. Super-strong, super-light, durable-yet-flexible two-dimensional [more...]

Tiny Treasure: The Future of Nano-gold (Nature Videos)

February 21, 2015

Lumps of gold moulded into rings, coins and ingots have been highly prized for millennia. But recently, scientists have realized that tiny pieces of this precious metal – far too small to be seen by the naked eye – could also [more...]

Biodefence Researchers Seek Homo Chippiens

February 19, 2015

‘Organs on chips’, such as this simulated lung, could be used to test bodily responses to toxic chemicals (Image credit: Wyss Institute/Harvard) Each year, the US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars stockpiling [more...]

Heating Targeted Cancer Nano-drugs Increases Uptake in Tumour Cells

February 19, 2015

Liposomes Manchester scientists have found that gentle heating of targeted nano-sized drug parcels more effectively in deliver them to tumour cells – resulting in an improvement in survival rates (Journal of Controlled Release, [more...]

A Force Controlled Patch Clamp of Beating Cardiac Cells

February 19, 2015

From its invention in the 1970s, the patch clamp technique is the gold standard in electrophysiology research and drug screening because it is the only tool enabling accurate investigation of voltage-gated ion channels, which are [more...]

Gold Nanotubes Launch a Three-Pronged Attack on Cancer Cells

February 19, 2015

The nanotubes can be tumour-targeted and have a central ‘hollow’ core that can be loaded with a therapeutic payload ( Image credit: Jing Claussen (iThera Medical, Germany)) Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many [more...]

Lab-on-a-chip to study single cells at EPFL

February 19, 2015

Scientists at EPFL have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technique to analyze single cells from entire population. The new method, which uses beads and microfluidics can change the way we study mixed populations of cells, such as those of [more...]

Smartphone Dongles Performed a Point-of-care Diagnostics

February 15, 2015

Smartphone dongles performed a point-of-care HIV and syphilis test in Rwanda from finger prick whole blood in 15 minutes, operated by health care workers trained on a software app (Image Credit: Columbia University) A team of [more...]

3D-Printed Fluidic Platforms Enable Blood Component Measurement

February 15, 2015

As an emerging rapid prototyping method, 3D-printing has recently caught tremendous attention. Scientists including Chengpeng Chen and his advisor, Dr. Spence, from Michigan State University have been taking advantage of 3D-printing to [more...]

Low-tech Microfluidics

February 11, 2015

Microfluidic chips made in the Science Practice studio “This article is written by Dr Tempest van Schaik and has been reposted with permission from the Science Practice blog. Science Practice is a research and design company in [more...]

Real-time Deformability Cytometry: On-the-fly Cell Mechanical Phenotyping

February 11, 2015

Real-Time Deformability Cytometry (RT-DC) to determine the mechanical fingerprint of blood. Cells flow at a velocity of 10 cm/s from right to left through the microfluidic channel. The sheath flow from the upper and lower right corners [more...]

On-chip Sensors, Call for Paper

February 11, 2015

Dear Colleagues, The original idea of lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technology involves integrating on-chip sensors with advanced microfluidic technology to build miniaturized devices that can monitor bio/chemical responses in real time [more...]

Microfluidics Enables Production of Shape-controllable Microgels

February 11, 2015

The schematic on top depicts a microfluidic device to create biocompatible particles called shape-controllable microgels that could be custom designed for specific roles such as drug delivery vehicles, tissue engineering building blocks [more...]

15 Awesome Surface Treatment Technologies in Daily Life

February 11, 2015

Wood surface treatment (All photo credits in this aritcle: Nanex Company) Treatments to protect wood, metal, glass or leather surfaces are nothing new. There have been countless items on the marketplace, including everything from waxes [more...]

BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, Lecture Series from Wayne State University

February 4, 2015

Professor Amar Basu from Wayne State University is posting video lectures from his course, BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, offered in the Winter semester 2015. This course is an interdisciplinary graduate level course is open to [more...]

T2 Biosystems and Canon U.S. Life Sciences to Develop Lyme Disease Test Panel

February 4, 2015

T2 Biosystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:TTOO) a company developing innovative diagnostic products to improve patient health today announced that the company has entered into a multi-year, strategic agreement with Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. to [more...]