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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 [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 [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 [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 [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, [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, [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 [more...]

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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [more...]

Corning and CytoSMART Announce Agreement for Cell Counting Device

March 25, 2018

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and CytoSMART Technologies BV today announced an agreement that will simplify mammalian cell counting in laboratories around the world. Cell counting is a critical step in [more...]

Acoustic Waves Direct Particles in Microchannels

March 4, 2018

Drug development, artificial tissue design, and the study of intercellular communication are just some of the applications that rely on the precise control of particles or cells in microfluidic devices. [more...]