April 2016

Microfluidics: A General Overview of Microfluidics – By ELVESYS

April 24, 2016

DEFINITION OF MICROFLUIDICS WHAT IS MICROFLUIDICS? Microfluidics is both the science which studies the behaviour of fluids through micro-channels and the technology of manufacturing microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels [more...]

Pressure Measurement and Control Anywhere in Your Microfluidic Setup

April 18, 2016

The Elveflow microfluidic pressure capillary sensor can be plugged anywhere in your microfluidic setup in order to record pressure on your computer and control the flow subsequently thanks to Elveflow pressure pumps. The pressure sensors [more...]

Design Contest Aims to Advance MEMS

April 17, 2016

EDA software and foundry services companies are collaborating with a German university to organize a two-year design contest to explore the integration of MEMS and CMOS. Cadence, X-Fab, Coventor and Reutlingen University are sponsoring the [more...]

Using Chip Technology To Detect And Prevent Diseases

April 17, 2016

The overlap between semiconductor technology and medicine is growing, creating the same kinds of economies of scale that have fueled the semiconductor industry for the past five decades. While technology has long held a place in the [more...]

Custom-sized Nanocontainers Help Drug Delivery

April 17, 2016

In a recently patented NIST method for making precisely sized nanoscale capsules, a stream of fluid (isopropyl alcohol) containing dissolved biomolecules (the building blocks for the capsules) is focused by streams of water on either side. [more...]

Leti and ARaymondlife Launch Project to Speed Use Of Microfluidic Devices for Onsite Biological Sample Analysis

April 16, 2016

Leti, an Institute of CEA Tech, and ARaymondlife*, a manufacturer of customized devices and consumables for the IVD industry today announced a joint initiative to accelerate the development and manufacturing of innovative medical devices, [more...]

Microfluidics, A New Way for Cosmetics

April 9, 2016

Microfluidic Textures Video (Image Credit: Capsum) A pioneer in the field of Microfluidics, Capsum is the world-first cosmetic company to apply the principles of Microfluidics for the industry. Capsum engineered novel cold manufacturing [more...]

UCLA Study Yields the Key to Effective Personalized Medicine

April 9, 2016

This mosaic represents a compilation of patient-specific parabolic response surfaces, which are the keys to personalized medicine. They represent responses to combination therapy for individual patients for liver transplant [more...]

Microfluidics: DARPA Is Betting Embedded Water Droplets Could Cool Next-gen Chips

April 7, 2016

It’s general knowledge that heat is a significant problem with modern microprocessors. Intel and AMD have collectively held the line at 140W maximum TDP (thermal design power) for the past decade, with a few SKUs tiptoeing up to 150 or [more...]

Microfluidics and Spectroscopic Imaging for Personalized Medicine in Ovarian Cancer

April 2, 2016

With certain cancers, such as ovarian cancers, a significant number of patients are non-responsive to the standard chemotherapy treatment. These patients, therefore, experience the negative side effects of chemotherapy without clinical [more...]