April 2018

A Stopwatch for Nanofluids

April 29, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has filed a provisional patent application for a microflow measurement system, about the size of a nickel, that can track the movement of extremely tiny amounts of liquids—as [more...]

Skin-Mounted Microfluidics Analyze Biomarkers in Sweat

April 28, 2018

From a medical perspective, there are plenty of reasons to be interested in sweat. The quantitative measurement of its components can track certain bodily functions under different conditions and help in the diagnosis of diseases. Chloride [more...]

Chip-based Blood Test for Multiple Myeloma Could Make Bone Biopsies a Relic of the Past

April 28, 2018

A new University of Kansas research effort featured in the current edition of Integrative Biology has resulted in a low-cost, reliable blood test that uses a small plastic chip about the size of a credit card that can deliver the same [more...]

Future Food Formulation Factories

April 28, 2018

Nutraceutical is a broad term used to describe any compound found in food that is thought to add nutritional value. They are extracted from food and concentrated to enhance their therapeutic effect. This can range from lycopene found in [more...]

Food Scientist Works to Improve Nutrition, Understand Gut Disease

April 28, 2018

The difficulties of conducting research on the human gut are substantial: the presence of trillions of bacterial cells interacting with human cells and each other, constant environmental changes every time food is consumed and zero chance [more...]

Organ-on-a-chip: a New Model of Microfluidic Chip

April 22, 2018

Cells in a microwell and their growth after two days of perfusion An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device with continuously perfused chambers in which cells are cultured to obtain functional units that mimic organ functions. The [more...]

Raman Spectroscopy Technique Identifies Antibiotic Resistance

April 15, 2018

Knowing that existing methods for pathogen diagnostics are time-consuming and expensive, a team of scientists at the Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technologies (Leibniz-IPHT), the Center for Sepsis Control and Care at the University [more...]

Phasefocus Appoints Australian Distributor for Cell Analysis System

April 15, 2018

The Livecyte cell imaging and analysis system from Phasefocus (Image credit: Livecyte) Phasefocus (Sheffield, England) is continuing its global extension program with the appointment of ATA Scientific Instruments as its official [more...]

Microsensor Could Help Individualize Dialysis Treatment

April 15, 2018

Microscope picture of the microfluidic device developed by researcher Manoj Sharma. The horizontal stripe is the microchannel, which measures 0.2 mm across. The six other stripes are optic fibers that capture the fluorescent light and lead [more...]