May 2018

4rd Workshop on standards for microfluidics July 11& 12 at METAS, Bern, Switzerland

May 23, 2018

After three successful and productive microfluidic standardization workshops, the Microfluidics Association invite individuals, companies and associations active on the field to the 4thMicrofluidics Workshop. This workshop will be held [more...]

A Faster Way to Make Drug Microparticles

May 15, 2018

Pharmaceuticals owe their effects mostly to their chemical composition, but the packaging of these drugs into specific physical formulations also needs to be done to exact specifications. For example, many drugs are encapsulated in solid [more...]

Ink-jet Printing Promises Neural Precision

May 15, 2018

Researchers led by Patrick Smith of the University of Sheffield in the UK recently showed that they could print neuronal and other types of biological cells using a piezoelectric ink-jet printer. The neuronal cells printed with the [more...]

Nanomedical Diagnostics Releases Report on Affinity Ranking for Hit Validation

May 15, 2018

Agile R100 Nanomedical Diagnostics, leading manufacturer of graphene biosensors that accelerate pharmaceutical and biotherapeutics development, released a report for biochemists and chemists entitled, “Affinity Ranking of Small [more...]

Cytena Announced a Series of Three New Single-cell Printers

May 10, 2018

The isolation, sorting and analysis of single biological cells has been rapidly gaining attention in the life-science sector over the last couple of years. cytena’s single-cell printing technology has rapidly gained adoption by the [more...]

MilliporeSigma Advances Cell Analysis with New Benchtop Flow Cytometer with Camera Detection

May 6, 2018

MilliporeSigma launched its new CellStream™ benchtop flow cytometry system, a compact, customizable flow cytometer that uses a camera for detection on April 27th 2018. Its unique optics system and design provide researchers with [more...]

Low-cost Spectroscopy Technique Measures Brain Blood Flow

May 6, 2018

UC Davis biomedical engineers have developed a new technique that could be used for measuring blood flow in the brains of patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury; light shined into the head is returned to a detector, and the signal [more...]

Ultrafast Compression Offers New Way to Get Macromolecules into Cells

May 6, 2018

By treating living cells like tiny absorbent sponges, researchers have developed a potentially new way to introduce molecules and therapeutic genes into human cells. The technique first compresses cells in a microfluidic device by [more...]

ZEG-MED

May 6, 2018

About the company: ZEG-MED is a global manufacturing, engineering and designing company that offers fluidics products to clients around the world. They specialize in diffusion bonded manifolds, solvent bonded manifolds, and plastic/light [more...]

Leti and Cellmic LLC Join Forces to Accelerate Market Adoption of Lens-free Diagnostics

May 6, 2018

Figure DxCELL is operated by the built-in phone integrated into the reader and uses the camera on the phone to capture and process test data (Image credit: Cellmic ) Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company [more...]

Precision Waveguides with Inkjet Printing

May 6, 2018

Scientists at a Swiss laboratory have demonstrated an inkjet method for precise printing of tiny optical components such as waveguides (Opt. Express, doi:10.1364/OE.26.011934). The new technique leverages capillary forces—instead of [more...]

Minitech Machinery

May 5, 2018

About the company: Minitech Machinery providers a variety of desktop CNC manufacturing systems and also provides service and support for micro-machining. Their machines are compatible with Visual Mill (CAM) and Solidworks. They gain market [more...]