August 2015

Hoope Can Diagnose Sexually Transmitted Diseases with Help of Microfluidics

August 31, 2015

Called Hoope, it has a retractable needle and functions as a home diagnostic tool that distributes blood into four microfluidic channels and to a lab-on-a-chip (Image Credit: Hoope) A smart ring and a phone could help people diagnose [more...]

Senseonics Raises $10M for Implanted, Smartphone-connected Glucose Sensor

August 31, 2015

Germantown, Maryland-based continuous glucose monitor device maker Senseonics raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing. The company has not yet responded to a request for comment. Existing investors include Anthem Capital, Delphi [more...]

Buliding a Better Micromachine

August 30, 2015

Plasma electrons emerging from a nozzle to form a microelectronic structure that is only as wide as a strand of human hair (Image Credit: SOUVIK GHOSH) To get a sense of how Christian Zorman and his colleagues aim to create a [more...]

FDA Clears Single Blood Drop Test for Earlier Pregnancy Detection

August 25, 2015

NOWDiagnostics‘ ADEXUSDx product line features a lab at your fingertip, using only a single drop of blood to test for a variety of common conditions, illnesses and diseases with results in a matter of minutes. NOWDiagnostics’ [more...]

3D-printed Smart Cap Uses Electronics To Sense Spoiled Food

August 23, 2015

UC Berkeley engineers created a ‘smart cap’ using 3D-printed plastic with embedded electronics to wirelessly monitor the freshness of milk.(Photo credit: Sung-Yueh Wu) It might not be long before consumers can just hit “print” to [more...]

From Science Friction To Everyday: 3 Fields Capitalizing On Lasers

August 23, 2015

Screenshot from Schott Glass The laser has long been a favorite of science fiction writers, movie directors, and audiences alike. The technology was first developed in the 1960s, and since then, it’s been studied in some of the most [more...]

Lab-on-Chip platform technologies for Point-of-Care testing and Cell Culturing

August 23, 2015

Authors Mark Olde Riekerink, Monica Brivio, Elvin Vrouwe and Marko Blom Introduction Lab-on-a-chip technologies are increasingly and successfully being applied in many application fields within chemistry and life science, including [more...]

Lab-on-a-chip Flow Cytometry

August 23, 2015

Even a very small number of pathogens can cause severe threat towards food safety. Due to increased safety concerns, there is a high demand for fast and sensitive methods for the detection of microbial contaminants in the food processing [more...]

Google Wants to Cure Diseases

August 21, 2015

Google’s smart contract lens When Google Co-Founder Larry Page dropped his now-famous blog post revealing that Google was reorganizing itself as Alphabet, one of the most striking things was what he chose to highlight as the kind [more...]

InziGn

August 20, 2015

About the company: Inzign partnered up with Singapore’s leading manufacturing technology research institute (SIMTech) to serve the fast growing lab-on-chip / microfluidic industry. Our microfluidics capability includes injection [more...]

5 Things To Consider Before Walking Out On Your Job

August 16, 2015

Keeping emotions in check, particularly when you are fed up at your job, can be tough to do. But if you let it get the best of you and quit in anger or in a rage it can come back to bite you. Lots of people at some point have fantasized [more...]

5 Rules of Salary Negotiation

August 16, 2015

Are you hoping to receive an awesome job offer? Are you praying that your employer will give you a raise in 2015? Whether it’s the fear of being perceived as pushy or feeling uncomfortable about the negotiation process, professionals are [more...]

Rice, Penn State Open Center for 2-D Coatings

August 16, 2015

An atom-thick Rice Owl (scale bar equals 100 micrometers) created in 2013 demonstrated an ability to make fine patterns in a hybrid graphene/hexagonal boron nitride material. Rice researchers led by materials scientists Jun Lou and [more...]

Introduction to BioMEMS

August 16, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Albert Folch Helping to educate the new generation of engineers and biologists, Introduction to BioMEMS explains how certain problems in biology and medicine benefit from and often [more...]

BioMEMS: Science and Engineering Perspectives

August 15, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Authors: Simona Badilescu, Muthukumaran Packirisamy Summary As technological advancements widen the scope of applications for biomicroelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS or biomicrosystems), [more...]

Hydrogel Stretches and Contracts Like a Heat-driven Muscle

August 15, 2015

These are pictures showing the changing shape of the hydrogel as it ‘walks’ in a water environment in responses to changes of temperature. (Credit: Kim et al. Nature Materials) In research published in Nature Materials, a team [more...]

Capturing Cell Growth in 3D with Microfluidic Device

August 15, 2015

AIM Biotech’s microfluidics device (shown here) has an array of culturing sections, each with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, and two side channels for culturing additional cell types. Replicating how [more...]

Review: Microfluidics Solution to Future Developments

August 15, 2015

Cell encapsulation with Dolomite microfluidic device. (Image Credit: Dolomite Microfluidics) Interest in microfluidics technology began as far back at 1975, when researchers at Stanford Univ. developed a miniature gas chromatograph [more...]

Male or Female: The Difference Is in the Brain?

August 15, 2015

Catherine S. Woolley, a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern Univ.’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, refused to study sex differences in the brain for 20 years. But in 2012, she discovered estrogens decreased inhibitory [more...]

Nano-Optomechanical Resonators in Microfluidics

August 15, 2015

Microwheel resonator integrated in microfluidic system (Image Credit: Tang et al) Scientists at Yale University in the US have made a nano-optomechanical resonator that can weigh objects as light as a few attograms. The device, which works [more...]