July 2017

TearLab Announces European Regulatory Clearance for Next-Generation TearLab Discovery™ System

July 23, 2017

TearLab Osmolarity System with its Osmolarity Test Card (image credit: TearLab) TearLab Corporation (NASDAQ:TEAR) (TSX:TLB) (the “Company”) today announced that the commercial version of its next-generation in-vitro diagnostics [more...]

FORMULATRIX® Announces Unveiling of New High-throughput Digital PCR System

July 23, 2017

CONSTELLATION Digital PCR system (image credit: FORMULATRIX) July 19, 2016— FORMULATRIX® announced today that the next generation CONSTELLATION® Digital PCR System will be revealed at the qPCR and Digital PCR Congress in Philadelphia [more...]

Using Microfluidics, Startup Atacama designed Fabric That Makes Sweatproof

July 23, 2017

Image credit: Atacama With MIT researchers designing a moisture-responsive fabric made from live cells and a world-renown company like Polo incorporating heart rate monitors into their high-tech shirts, fitness apparel is on the verge of [more...]

Skin Vaccination with Microneedle Patch

July 23, 2017

Biodegradable micro-needle patch (image credit: Georgia State University) A boosting skin vaccination with a biodegradable microneedle patch and protein constructed from sequences of influenza virus subtypes could improve the effectiveness [more...]

Dynamic Microenvironments: Finding the Right Cancer Therapy

July 16, 2017

With so many promising cancer therapies emerging from research labs, a key challenge for biomedical researchers is to develop tools that accurately predict treatment efficacy against a patient’s specific cancer, thereby avoiding [more...]

Miniature Technology, Big Hope for Disease Detection

July 16, 2017

The field of medicine is always on the lookout for better disease diagnostic tools—simpler, faster, and cheaper technologies to enhance patient treatment and outcomes. Currently, microfluidic bioassay devices are the preferred diagnostic [more...]

Microfluidics for Single Cell Analysis of CTCs

July 16, 2017

In a move away from the previous belief that cell populations are homogeneous and display identical molecular characteristics, increasingly scientists are turning their attention to the study of single cells and the differences between [more...]

Penn Students’ Design To Reach New Heights Aboard the ISS

July 16, 2017

In response to a call to “Print the Future,” three Penn undergraduates won the opportunity to have their design 3-D printed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Rising seniors Jaimie Carlson, Laura Gao, and Adam Zachar [more...]

Tutorial-How to Make a Microfluidic Device

July 16, 2017

This is a simple guide to making a PDMS microfluidic device from start to finish by Queen Mary University. They include practical tips to enable you to make high quality devices, and save you a lot of time and effort. Hopefully this [more...]

‘Smart’ Insulin Patches Developed at UNC

July 4, 2017

Glucose-responsive “smart insulin patches” like this one developed by UNC and N.C. State could one day simplify the way people manage diabetes.( Image credit: COURTESY OF ZHEN GU) For the 29 million Americans living with diabetes, a [more...]

NightstaRx Raises $45M to Fund Phase III Study with Retinal Disease Gene Therapy

July 4, 2017

U.K. firm NightstaRx raised $45 million in a Series C financing round to support continued clinical development of its pipeline of retinal gene therapies, including a pending Phase III study with lead candidate NSR-REP1 for treating [more...]

GenMark Achieves CE Mark for its ePlex® Blood Culture Identification Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Panels

July 4, 2017

GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:GNMK), a leading provider of automated, multiplex molecular diagnostic testing systems, today announced it has achieved CE Mark under the European In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices Directive (98/79/EC) for its [more...]

Nehirbt

July 4, 2017

About the company: NehirBT is a producer of the microfluidics chips, fittings, connectors and accessories. We are focused on microfluidics applications on life science research such as cell sorting, cell analysis, drug development, POC [more...]