2018

Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making roles in HIV

December 29, 2018

Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today. However, if left undiagnosed or untreated, HIV can develop into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency [more...]

Microfluidic chip helps replicate the motor neuron connections affected by ALS

December 27, 2018

In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that gradually kills off the motor neurons that control muscles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; [more...]

China Develops Raman-activated Cell sorting and Sequencing System

December 27, 2018

Researchers at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Qingdao, China) have developed a Raman-activated cell sorting and sequencing (RACS-SEQ) instrument that enables [more...]

Single-Cell Sequencing Startup Mission Bio Raises $30 Million

December 27, 2018

Mission Bio, a startup that’s developed a single-cell sequencing platform, announced Thursday that it’s raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The South San Francisco-based company’s machine and software, called the [more...]

MIT scientists can now shrink 3D printed objects down to nanoscale versions

December 27, 2018

Scale is not a limitation of 3D printing. There are factory-sized 3D printers and 3D printers that can produce nanoscale 3D geometries. And then there’s Shrinky Dinks. Everyone remembers those kits designed to shrink [more...]

Roche teams up with Alcyone LifeSciences in Precision Drug Delivery

December 25, 2018

Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) will collaborate with privately held Alcyone Lifesciences in precision drug delivery aimed at optimizing intrathecal (injected into the spinal canal) therapies and developing antisense oligonucleotide treatments for [more...]

A Microrobot for Intravascular Treatments

December 24, 2018

A particular challenge in intravascular treatments is the control of submillimeter guidewires. This requires a new microrobotics approach. A soft magnetic microrobot is required, consisting of (1) a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) [more...]

1DROP Raises $4.25 Million to Develop Next-Generation Portable Medical Diagnostics

November 30, 2018

1DROP, a life science company developing and commercializing an easy to use, laboratory quality, portable medical diagnostic testing platform, today announced the successful closing of a $4.25 million Series A equity financing [more...]

Single Cell Sequencing Sheds Light on Why Cancers Form in Specific Cell Types

November 30, 2018

While many cells in our bodies can accumulate oncogenic mutations, the majority of these events do not lead to tumor formation as these abnormal cells are eliminated by defense mechanisms. Instead, tumors arise when a mutation happens in a [more...]

NSF Grant Supports Center to Develop Microfluidics-based Solutions

November 26, 2018

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics. The center, also known by its [more...]

ACEA Biosciences to be Acquired by Agilent Technologies

September 30, 2018

ACEA Biosciences is a company known for developing highly innovative products, which are used in academia, as well as the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. In recent years, the ACEA xCELLigence® RTCA technology has blazed a trail in [more...]

Cell Microsystems, UNC HIV Cure Center Win $283K NIH Grant to Develop HIV Reservoir Assay

September 10, 2018

Isolate and recover single cells for molecular analysis or the generation of clonal populations (Image credit: Cell Microsystems) Cell Microsystems and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV Cure Center said this week that [more...]

Photo-electro-chemical Deep Trench Etching in Gallium Nitride

August 25, 2018

SCIOCS Co Ltd and Hosei University, both of Japan, have reported progress in using photo-electro-chemical (PEC) etching for deep high-aspect-ratio trenches in gallium nitride (GaN) [Fumimasa Horikiri et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol11, [more...]

Researchers Develop Wearable Microfluidic Cytometer

August 25, 2018

Wearable cytometry system on flexible PCB with integrated microfluidic polydimethylsiloxane chip, microcontroller, and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) readout to smartphone (not shown). Image credit: Furniturewalla et al, doi: [more...]

Driving Innovation With Glass Wafers in MEMS and Consumer Electronics

August 25, 2018

Microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) are systems that use both mechanical and electrical components, or small integrated devices. MEMS are critical components in nearly every industry. With the global consumer electronics market [more...]

Top 10 Medical Devices Companies 2018

August 25, 2018

Medical devices industry is a crucial and fast growing arm of the life sciences industry. Medical devices companies produce a wide array of products such as diagnostics, surgical instruments, wheelchairs and cardiac devices which are used [more...]

Intabio Awarded $2.3 Million SBIR Fast Track Grant to Support Commercial Development of a Novel Microchip-based Solution for Biopharmaceutical Analysis

August 25, 2018

NEWARK, Calif., Aug. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Intabio, Inc., announced today the receipt of a Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the [more...]