2017

UC Davis licenses technology for miniaturized chemical detectors

December 25, 2017

The University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with SensIT Ventures Inc. for a breakthrough technology that can be used to identify a broad range of chemicals from environmental samples. The license, [more...]

Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Diagnostics Global Market Top Key Players

December 13, 2017

Cancer is diagnosed by blood count, bone marrow biopsy, and molecular identification of mutated cells. CTC diagnostics helps in the identification of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) shed by tumor cells. CTCs are cancerous cells which detach [more...]

IDEX Corporation to Acquire thinXXS Microtechnology AG

December 13, 2017

IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) announced today the acquisition of thinXXS Microtechnology AG; a leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of microfluidic components serving the point of care, veterinary, and life science markets. Located in [more...]

Sphere Fluidics and Geneva Biotech receive Eurostars Genome Editing Grant

December 3, 2017

Cyto-mine, a benchtop automated instrument for single cell analysis (Credit: Sphere Fluidics) Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an [more...]

Vibrating Sensors Could Identify Blood Biomarkers

December 2, 2017

Purdue University researchers have found a method of identifying biological markers in small amounts of blood that they believe could be used to detect a myriad of diseases, infections and different medical conditions at early stages. [more...]

Team Develops Innovative, Ideal Liquid-Repellent Surfaces

December 1, 2017

On liquid-repellent surfaces, liquid droplets bounce away instead of being stuck. These surfaces are important in many fields, such as water-repellent clothes and anti-fouling kitchenware. Used as drag-reduction coatings for water [more...]

Microfluidics Probe ‘Cholesterol’ of the Oil Industry

December 1, 2017

It sounds cliché, but things do get worse before they get better when oil and gas lines are being cleared of contaminants, according to Rice University researchers. Until now, nobody knew exactly why. Asphaltene is a complex of [more...]

BD Expands Genomics Portfolio with New Single Cell Platform for RNA Expression Analysis

December 1, 2017

BD Rhapsody™ single cell analysis system (Credit: Becton Dickinson) BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the launch of BD Rhapsody, a platform for single [more...]

Flow Cytometry Market 2016-2020

November 23, 2017

Flow cytometry is a laser or impedance-based technology used in cell sorting, cell counting, biomarker detection, and protein engineering. Flow cytometry allows for in-depth analysis of cell structures using software. The process starts [more...]

Smoke On the Water, Data in the DNA

November 23, 2017

Scientists can now tweak DNA molecules to store data. (Credit: PASIEKA / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY) In the summer of 1971 Frank Zappa was playing to a packed audience inside Switzerland’s Montreux Casino when a fan threw a flare and set the [more...]

NevadaNano Raises $18 Million in Series B Funding

November 12, 2017

NevadaNano, developer of Molecular Property SpectrometerTM (MPSTM) gas sensing solutions, today announced it has closed $18 million in Series B funding led by Ray Stata, Chairman of Analog Devices with participation from several existing [more...]

CN Bio Innovations Use Organs-on-Chips to Improve Drug Development and Evaluation

October 29, 2017

Image credit: CN-Bio Innovation FDA and CN Bio will collaborate to characterize the performance of CN Bio’s Organs-on-Chips as a platform for potential use in drug development and regulatory evaluation, including safety testing prior [more...]

A Microfluidics-based in situ Chemotaxis Assay to Study the Behavior of Aquatic Microbial Communities

October 29, 2017

Method papers can be pretty frustrating to write: they rarely do justice to the amount of work needed to develop a new technique and present only the final, fully troubleshot, version of the work. However, we all know that a lot of trial [more...]

Stanford Researchers use optical light to separate molecules from their doppelgangers

October 29, 2017

A handshake between light and molecules may soon lead to purer chemicals, thanks to the work of Jennifer Dionne, PhD, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and her lab. As described in a paper published this week [more...]

New Technology Illuminates Microbial Dark Matter

October 29, 2017

At Stanford University, researchers have used a new microfluidic analysis system to extract 29 novel microbial genomes (the complete set of genetic material) from samples from two Yellowstone National Park hot springs. They extracted the [more...]

Researchers at Binghamton University Have Created a Micro-scale Biological Solar Cell

October 29, 2017

Image Credit: Seokheun Choi Researchers at Binghamton University have created a micro-scale biological solar cell that generates a higher power density for longer than any existing cell of its kind. A microfluidic lab-on-a-chip system [more...]

New Microfluidic Chip Boosts the Sensitivity of Immunoassays

October 29, 2017

Proteins are one of the most important classes of biomarkers – biological molecules indicative of a disease or health of an individual. The detection of proteins is critical in a variety of tests; from the diagnosis of malaria, through [more...]

Origami-based, Fast, Reconfigurable Flow Switch for Paper Microfluidics

October 9, 2017

The control the fluid flow in paper channels is critical in realizing integrated assays where multi-step chemical reactions are performed. Thus far, this has often involved the use of dissolvable solutes, absorbable materials, or [more...]

Circulomics Receives Two SBIR Grants Totaling over $1.7M

October 9, 2017

Circulomics, a Baltimore, MD-based biotechnology startup, received two SBIR grants totaling over $1.7M. The company will use the funds to develop new applications of its Nanobind DNA/RNA extraction technology. These new awards bring total [more...]

Rheonix to Present Data on Fully Automated and Integrated Next-Generation Sequencing Library

October 9, 2017

Image credit: Rheonix Rheonix Inc., a developer of fully automated molecular testing solutions, will highlight its fully automated and integrated sample preparation solution on the Encompass Optimum™ workstation at the 2nd ASM [more...]