April 2015

Microfluidic Professional Course- University of Toronto

April 27, 2015

The 3-Day Microfluidic Professional Course will provide participants from industry, government laboratories and academia with a state-of-the art overview and hands-on-training of current and emerging microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip [more...]

Laser Welding Plastic Parts

April 27, 2015

GLOBO welding uses a welding head that looks a little like an oversized ballpoint pen. Its rotating glass sphere focuses the laser beam and presses against the parts being welded. (Photo Credit: Leister Technologies) To manufacturers, a [more...]

An Electronic Micropump to Deliver Treatments deep Within The Brain

April 27, 2015

The organic electronic micropump (represented by a purple cylinder) directly releases among the neurons, active molecules (spheres) that will control the activity of these neurons (here they will stop the epileptic activity). Many [more...]

NanoCellect And Invetech Announce Collaboration To Develop Novel Flow Cytometry Platform

April 27, 2015

Microfluidic cell sorter (Image Credit: NanoCellect) Invetech, a global leader in instrument design and development, custom automation, and contract manufacturing, and NanoCellect Biomedical, a company developing affordable and accessible [more...]

Lab-on-a-chip Detects Cryptosporidium in As Little As 10 Min

April 20, 2015

Microfluidic chip, Image Credit: Cheng/Fudan University For a healthy individual, an infection of Cryptosporidium parvum may mean nothing more than a few days of bad diarrhea. For someone with a compromised immune system, it can mean [more...]

NIST Technique Can Measure Volumes of Key Lab on a Chip Components

April 20, 2015

NIST found a combination of techniques to effectively measure microfluidic channels, achieving an accuracy of within 5 percent for both a channel’s depth and its bottom’s width. Scale bar in this cross-section of a channel [more...]

Silicon Chip Spots Dangerous Pathogens in Human Blood

April 19, 2015

Scientists in China have developed a silicon chip doped with silver nanoparticles that can rapidly detect different pathogens in blood samples. The technique may be a rapid and low-cost alternative to current diagnostic tools. There are [more...]

Sensor Detects Spoiled Meat

April 19, 2015

This MIT device, based on modified carbon nanotubes, can detect amines produced by decaying meat. Image Credit: Sophie Liu MIT chemists have devised an inexpensive, portable sensor that can detect gases emitted by rotting meat, allowing [more...]

Princeton University Microfluidics Boot Camp: July 27-31, 2015, Available for Registration

April 19, 2015

Boot Camp Mission: Our boot camp is designed to familiarize researchers with microfluidic/micro-fabrication technologies. Attendees will learn to make microfluidic devices by soft lithography and perform several experiments using them. [more...]

IBM Researchers Try to Build Thermal Management Into Microfluidic Chip Designs

April 19, 2015

Microelectronics experts at IBM Corp. are taking the next step in a U.S. military research program to design convective or evaporative microfluidic cooling directly into microchip designs and packaging. Officials of the U.S. Air Force [more...]

EmulTech To Realize Microparticle Production Plant

April 13, 2015

This year EmulTech will start the realization of the first microparticle production plant for its industrial partner Fortified Food Coatings. Multiple customers have confirmed the feasibility of the INFINITY platform for their application, [more...]

Breath Test for Detecting Head and Neck Cancer with Micro Sensor

April 13, 2015

Each sensor is composed of a silicon disk 500 micrometres in diameter that is covered by a polymer and suspended by four minuscule “bridges” with integrated piezoresistors Inhale, then exhale. This simple act could now save [more...]

Silicon Nanoparticles and Cells Can Now Be Printed with Lasers

April 12, 2015

IMAGE: 3D printed cell structures (left) include stem cells printed in grid patterns (a) immediately after printing, and later differentiated toward (b) bone, (c) cartilage, and (d) adipose tissue. Histologic sections of skin tissue [more...]

NASA Chooses Microfluidic Electrochemical Reactor for Potential “Mission to Mars” Technology

April 12, 2015

NASA has selected UT Arlington as one of four U.S. institutions to develop improved methods for oxygen recovery and reuse aboard human spacecraft, a technology the agency says is crucial to “enable our human journey to Mars and [more...]

Microfluidics for Accelerated Drug Assays

April 12, 2015

Multiple microwells on Yevgeny Berdichevsky’s assay chips make it possible to test up to 18 drug candidates at a time. (Image Credit: Linda Nye) Approximately 125,000 Americans each year develop epilepsy, a brain disease marked by [more...]

Seven Low-Cost Devices for Diagnosing Diseases in Poor Countries

April 9, 2015

Every year, 1 million people die from malaria, more than 4 million from respiratory infections, 3 million from intestinal infections and 5 million due to AIDS and tuberculosis. Also, other sexually transmitted and parasitic infections in [more...]

Researchers Deliver Large Particles into Cells at High Speed

April 9, 2015

A team led by Professor Eric Pei-Yu Chiou created a tool that delivers nanoparticles, enzymes, antibodies and bacteria into cells at the rate of 100,000 cells per minute — significantly faster than current technology. A new device [more...]

Inkjet-printed Nanoparticle Liquid Metal Could Bring Wearable Tech, Soft Robotics

April 9, 2015

This artistic rendering depicts electronic devices created using a new inkjet-printing technology to produce circuits made of liquid-metal alloys for “soft robots” and flexible electronics. Elastic technologies could make [more...]

IC 3D: Rapid, Sensitive Culture-Free Detection of Bacteria

April 8, 2015

Figure 1. IC 3D allows rapid and sensitive pathogen detection in unprocessed bodily fluids (blood, urine, sputum, etc.), water, or food in less than an hour Integrated Comprehensive Droplet Digital Detection, or IC 3D, is an exciting new [more...]

µParaflo® Microfluidic Synthesis Platform

April 6, 2015

µParaflo® microfluidic chip (Image Credit: LC Sciences) A requirement common for all targeted sequencing methods, whether hybridization capture based or multiplex PCR based is a need for large numbers of custom oligonucleotide primers [more...]