October 2017

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...]