October 2015

Monitoring Critical Blood Levels in Real Time in the ICU

October 31, 2015

The biosensor and the app aimed at monitoring the results in real-time (Image credit: Alain Herzog/EPFL 2015) For patients in intensive care, knowing how much glucose, lactate and other substances are in the blood is a question of life or [more...]

Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Selects Illumina

October 30, 2015

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genotyping technologies are revolutionizing animal breeding. Traditional animal breeding relies on scoring animals based on their observed physical characteristics (phenotype) to determine their [more...]

Single-agent Phototherapy System Offers Significant New Tool to Fight Cancer

October 30, 2015

Researchers at Oregon State University today announced an important advance in the field of cancer imaging and phototherapy, using a single-agent system that may ultimately change the efficacy of cancer surgery and treatment around the [more...]

Researchers to Develop Breathalyzer-type Low Blood Sugar Warning Device for Diabetes

October 25, 2015

Researchers in the Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute Lab are developing nanosensors to Identify the signature breath odorants that are produced in human breath by specific volatile organic compounds that are created by the [more...]

The Lab-on-Chip Revolution: Finding the Right Niche

October 24, 2015

To trim costs and simplify the design of microfluidic devices, USC’s Krisna Bhargava has harnessed 3D printing to produce modular, Lego-style components for housing the elements of microfluidic systems. In laboratories ranging from [more...]

FDA Clears Intelesens’s Zensor, A Wearable Vitals Monitor

October 22, 2015

Belfast, Northern Ireland-based Intelesens has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its wearable vital signs monitor, called zensor, designed for monitoring patients outside the hospital. “This is a significant milestone for Intelesens and [more...]

MEMS Sensors for Biomedical Device Applications

October 22, 2015

Shown are different pressure sensor designs—each tailored to customers’ neeeds—on a single RocketMEMS semicustom wafer. The smallest pressure sensors in the lower left corner are approximately 300 µm wide (Image credit: [more...]

Nanosheet Flow Meters Find Sensor Stability

October 21, 2015

Nanosheets have a surface-texture advantage (image credit: Anna Demming) The ability to monitor fluid flow is crucial for a number of applications but current methods use ‘hot wires’ that are brittle and prone to break under operating [more...]

Researchers Creating Rapid Diagnostic Test For Blood Infections

October 15, 2015

Dr. Hawkins is working on developing tiny microchips like this for the project (Image Credit: BYU) BYU is a major part of a collaborative team which has just kicked off a massive multidisciplinary effort to combat a threat to global [more...]

Mini DNA Sequencer Tests True

October 15, 2015

Oxford Nanopore’s MinION™ USB-attached miniature sensing device. (Image Credit: Oxford Nanopore Technologies) The MinION, a handheld DNA-sequencing device developed by Oxford Nanopore, has been tested and evaluated by an [more...]

Positioning Peristaltic Rollers Allows More Precise Dispensing

October 15, 2015

A basic three roller peristaltic pump draws liquid in bottom tube and expels it through the top tube ( All Image credit in this article: David Bach / BST-Bach Solutions & Technology, LLC) Accurate dispensing affects a great deal of [more...]

10 Tips that Connect Fluid Handling with IVD Technology

October 15, 2015

All image credit: Colder Product Company The in vitro diagnostics (IVD) market continues to grow at an almost breakneck pace, along with laboratory demands for increasingly complex and efficient equipment. Whether designing for [more...]

Here’s Why Nobody’s Talking About Nanotech Anymore

October 11, 2015

A micro reactor from glass of the iX-factory GmbH for cost-efficient and danger-reduced mixing of chemicals in the chemical industry (Credit: Kevin Kelleher, Time) Of all the investment fads and manias over the past few decades, none have [more...]

Pharma and Drug Delivery Developments Combine

October 11, 2015

Both micro manufacturing techniques and materials advancements are constantly driving innovation in pharmaceutical devices, combination devices, and drug delivery. The medical device sector is constantly pushing the drive towards [more...]

Air Force Successfully Tests Wearable Biometric Sensors

October 11, 2015

Flexible and wearable biometric sensor (Image credit: Mark Pomerleau from GCN) The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Tech Warrior exercises give airmen a chance to test new equipment and allow scientists and engineers to see how their lab [more...]

Holographic Imaging For Rapidly sorting Stem Cells, Cancer Cells

October 11, 2015

MIT scientists created these 3-D images of living cells based on measurements of their index of refraction. Different colors represent different indices of refraction, which correlate with the cells’ density, allowing for cells to be [more...]

New On-chip Optical Sensing Technique Used to Detect Multiple Flu Strains

October 9, 2015

A schematic view shows the optical waveguide intersecting a fluidic microchannel containing target particles. Targets are optically excited as they flow past well-defined excitation spots created by multi-mode interference; fluorescence is [more...]

Microfluidic Device Lets The Drop Beat

October 7, 2015

The hanging drops are connected through 200μm-wide channels (Image: Chemistry World) Scientists in Switzerland have incorporated pulsing human heart tissue into a microfluidic device to make a miniscule model of a living system that [more...]

Illumina Educating Patients and Providers on Prenatal Genetic Testing

October 7, 2015

Illumina supports non-profit organization to help provide educational resources and establish patient registry (Screenshot from Illumina) Illumina is joining with other laboratories to support the Perinatal Quality Foundation (PQF) [more...]

Creating Microchannels with a 3-D Printer

October 5, 2015

Bionanotechnologists from Wageningen University have developed a new, inexpensive way to make microfluidic devices without using costly materials or cleanroom facilities. The technique, which uses a 3D printer and Lego plastic, is called [more...]