August 2017

Oxford Scientists Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Tissues

August 19, 2017

Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionise regenerative medicine, enabling the production of complex tissues and [more...]

BYU Researchers Developed New 3D-printing Technology for Lab-on-a-chip Devices

August 19, 2017

3D-printed microfluidic device (image credit: BYU) Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that [more...]

Handheld Spectral Analyzer Turns Smartphone Into Diagnostic Tool

August 16, 2017

The spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or saliva samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars. Researchers at the [more...]

Microscopic Magnetic Blocks Group Together to Control Individual Cells

August 16, 2017

Collaborators from North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a method to remotely manipulate cells and other tiny objects in a liquid medium using magnets and what looks like articulating microscopic Lego blocks. [more...]

Roche Joins Senseonics, TypeZero for Artificial Pancreas Trials

August 16, 2017

Senseonics and TypeZero’s R&D partnership around the artificial pancreas is leveling up. The two organizations announced today that they would team up with pharmaceutical and medical device company Roche to launch three European [more...]

Researchers 3D Print Microfluidic Blood Vessel Model to Study Disease-Causing Blood Clots

August 16, 2017

We’ve seen 3D printed blood vessels before – even an entire functioning network of them that was surviving in mice – but researchers in the Netherlands who are working with blood vessels and 3D printing technology are focused on [more...]

Sweat-Inducing Sensor Could Make Blood Samples Obsolete

August 16, 2017

Scientists have recently used medical sensors to collect and sample sweat. Collecting this fluid allows them to analyze a patient’s body far more thoroughly than most other methods ever could. Analyzing sweat can often yield results [more...]

Smart Surface Enables Advanced Manipulation of Droplets

August 16, 2017

UBC-developed smart surface offers fast and reversible surface wetting properties-from superhydrophobic (water-repellant) to superhydrophilic (water-attractive) using a small voltage that could be supplied by conventional batteries. For [more...]

Engineers Find Better Way to Detect Nanoparticles

August 16, 2017

Two light scatterers, represented by the blue spheres, are utilized to tune the sensors to exceptional points, at which light propagates in one direction. (Image: W. Chen and L. Yang) Credit: Washington University in St. Louis It’s long [more...]

BioFluidica Raises $4.1M for Cancer Diagnosis Development

August 16, 2017

BioFluidica, a Chapel Hill company developing a product using liquid biopsies for cancer detection, has raised $4.1 million in a private equity offering. The company, founded in 2007 by Steven Soper, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and [more...]

Microfluidic Chip Achieves High-speed Sorting of Large Cells

August 12, 2017

This microfluidic chip enables cell sorting in 16 μs; the enlarged view shows a demonstration of on-chip cell sorting of a Euglena gracilis cell (time interval of each frame: 40 μs). (Image copyright: Shinya Sakuma, Yusuke Kasai, Takeshi [more...]

Irvine Scientific Introduces Continuous Single Culture-NX Low-lactate Culture Media for IVF

August 1, 2017

Irvine Scientific, a world leader in cell culture media development and innovation and manufacture of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), today announces the introduction of Continuous Single Culture® -NX, a next generation [more...]

UBC Engineers Invent 3D-printed Device to Monitor Water Quality

August 1, 2017

UBC researchers say measuring water quality continuously is vital in ensuring people’s drinking water is safe (Image credit: WANYEE LI/METRO) Engineers at the University of British Okanagan have designed a 3D-printed device that [more...]

‘Lab on a Chip’ Could Monitor Exposure to Dangerous Molecules

August 1, 2017

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

Stem Cell Treatment Kills Cancer Cells That Have Spread in Mice

August 1, 2017

A new stem cell-based cancer treatment can target and kill breast cancer cells that have spread in mice, according to a new study. The researchers behind the work hope that, if it is shown to work in humans, the treatment could also help [more...]

Liquid Handling System Market by Type, Product, Application & End User – Forecast to 2022

August 1, 2017

The global liquid handling systems market is expected to reach USD 3.74 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 7.2%. Rapidly developing global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, rising requirement for high-throughput screening (HTS), [more...]