June 2017

Flow Cytometry Pushes the Envelope of Applications Possibilities

June 25, 2017

This technical review article was adopted from Laser Focus World and written by Giacomo Vacca is president and founder of Kinetic River, Mountain View, CA. The author covered application history of flow cytometry, hardware evolution, [more...]

Wasatch Microfluidics Announces Name Change to Carterra, Inc. and New High Throughput SPRi Instrument

June 24, 2017

Wasatch Microfluidics, Inc. today announced a corporate name change to Carterra, Inc. The new name is based on two core concepts: Cartography (mapping) and terra (worlds); literally meaning “mapping worlds.” This represents the [more...]

New Implantable Biosensor Could Monitor Cell-Level Changes in Patients

June 24, 2017

The idea behind Efferent Labs – implanting a device containing living cells into the body to act as a biologic sensor – has attracted the attention of the scientific community. Although it is extremely difficult technically, the idea [more...]

Reproducing a Retinal Disease on a Chip

June 24, 2017

Approximately 80% of all sensory input is received via the eyes, so suffering from chronic retinal diseases that lead to blindness causes a significant decrease in the quality of life (QOL). And because retinal diseases are most common [more...]

Instrument Development Enables Planetary Exploration

June 24, 2017

This laser-interrogated microfluidic chip (10 centimeters in diameter) is one of the new planetary instrument technologies that NASA and other space agencies are developing to search for chemical indicators of life on other worlds. In this [more...]

Microfluidics Industry: What will Trigger the Next Growth Spurt?

June 24, 2017

“Microfluidic technologies have been around for a while, but only in the last few years have certain applications started benefiting from microfluidic breakthroughs”, comments Technology & Market Analyst, Sébastien Clerc from Yole [more...]

10 things You Should Know About How 3D Bioprinting

June 24, 2017

The healthcare industry is trying to capitalize on 3D printing, and fast. From prosthetic limbs and various surgical devices made with plastics and metals, to using cells to print human organs, experiments in this industry are progressing [more...]

Adding Depth to Cell Culture

June 18, 2017

As a postdoc studying human brain development and what goes wrong in conditions such as microencephaly, Madeline Lancaster faced the same familiar problems as her fellow lab researchers. For example, mice brains don’t behave or develop [more...]

The Making of a Medical Microchip

June 18, 2017

This chip, developed by Fluidigm, can be used in a microfluidics system to analyse genomic information from samples as small as a single cell (Image credit: Fluidigm) The bioengineers in Dino Di Carlo’s lab at the University of [more...]

Open-source, Community-driven Microfluidics with Metafluidics

June 18, 2017

Metafluidics is a brand new open repository for fluidic systems, built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, MA) in partnership with open source technology & design consulting company Bocoup (New York, NY) and maintained by the [more...]

miRNA Tools and Services Market – Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014-2022

June 18, 2017

miRNA is a set of small, non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression post transcription. These molecules have an impact on a wide range of biological functions such as cell cycle control, stem cell differentiation, immune [more...]

Different Types of Clinical Research

June 18, 2017

Different types of clinical research are used depending on what the researchers are studying. Below are descriptions of some different kinds of clinical research. Treatment Research generally involves an intervention such as medication, [more...]

Premarket Notification 510(k)

June 18, 2017

Each person who wants to market in the U.S., a Class I, II, and III device intended for human use, for which a Premarket Approval (PMA) is not required, must submit a 510(k) to FDA unless the device is exempt from 510(k) requirements of [more...]

Paper Diagnostics Market Analysis And Segment Forecasts To 2022

June 14, 2017

The global paper diagnostics market was valued at USD 4,700 million in 2014 and is anticipated to grow at CAGR of 7.5% over the forecast period. Rising prevalence of infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis is responsible for [more...]

Nanofiber Device Detects Forces and Sound Waves from Live Cells

June 14, 2017

A novel nano-sized optical fiber, about 100 times thinner than a human hair, is sensitive enough to detect forces down to 160 femtonewtons (fN) (about ten trillion times smaller than a newton) when placed in a solution containing live [more...]

Rensselaer Team Develops a New and Practical Method to Measure Cell Stiffness

June 14, 2017

A team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed an innovative approach to measuring cellular mechanical properties (i.e., cell stiffness) that is part of an emerging label-free (i.e, no histology dyes or [more...]

Sorting out HIV

June 14, 2017

Image Credit: EMBL/Merten Group Around 1% of patients with HIV – known as elite controllers – are able to survive without antiviral treatment, because their immune systems produce certain kinds of HIV-specific antibodies: proteins that [more...]

Wyss Institute’s Organ Chips Get Smart and Go Electric

June 14, 2017

This photograph of the Transepithelial Electrical Resistance- Multi-Electrode Array (TEER-MEA) chip shows the TEER electrodes in gold, the MEA collectors made of platinum in gray, and the two transparent parallel running microfluidic [more...]

Lab on a Chip Could Monitor Health, Germs and Pollutants

June 14, 2017

An artists’ rendition of microparticles flowing through a channel and passing through electric fields, where they are detected electronically and barcode-scanned. (Credit: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander Tokarev/Ella Maru Studios) [more...]

New Ultrasound ‘Drill’ Targets Deep Vein Blood Clots

June 14, 2017

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new surgical tool that uses low-frequency intravascular ultrasound to break down blood clots that cause deep vein [more...]