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Sculpting How Chemicals Spread In Fluid Flows

November 20, 2016

Solute is flowing from left to right in a square and skinny duct. The square case arrives with a gentler buildup (with more mass to the left), while the skinny case arrives with a more abrupt, sharper front. (Credit: Roberto Camassa, [more...]

Microfluidics and Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

November 20, 2016

Microfluidic devices offer novel time-saving advantages to researchers using mass spectrometry (MS) for proteomic analysis, and these tools have been becoming more available in MS over the last two decades. Recent papers by Redman et al. [more...]

Technology Brings New Precision to Study of Circadian Rhythm in Individual Cells

November 14, 2016

UGA researchers encapsulated individual Neurospora crassa cells in droplets using this new microfluidics device. (The channel is dyed green.) The device allowed them to track tens of thousands of cells with single-cell precision as they [more...]

Journal of Micromachine Calls for Papers, Special Issue “Insights and Advancements in Microfluidics”

November 14, 2016

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Microfluidics has developed rapidly over the past three decades. Relentless diagnostic, medical and chemical applications have been demonstrated in various applications, plateforms and tools. Have [more...]

Integrated Biosensors for Streamlined Human Behavior Research

November 14, 2016

Facial Expression Analysis Engine seamlessly integrates into the iMotions platform (Image credit: iMitions) The landscape of human behavior research is changing rapidly these days. Many questions that were once believed to exist solely in [more...]

Droplet-based Testing of Biochemical Reactions in 10,000 Different Conditions

November 6, 2016

By producing a large number of droplets containing different reagents in slightly different concentrations, it is possible to generate a high resolution map of how a reaction proceeds from different starting conditions. Here, Anthony [more...]

Survey on Microfluidic Testing Open for Experts

November 6, 2016

The purpose of the survey is to understand which tests this community sees as needed to verify the integrity of microfluidic based products in development or in production. We intend to help the industry to develop community wide supported [more...]

Organ-On-A-Chip Startup, Emulate, Grabs $45M to Shake Up Drug Discovery

November 6, 2016

Organ on a Chip (Image credit of Emulate) Who will come up with the killer app for drug discovery, the thing that will make finding new medicines faster, cheaper, and less risky? No one has come close to figuring that out, but a group of [more...]

3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors

November 6, 2016

Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and [more...]

Theranos Is Shutting Its Blood-Test Facilities

October 9, 2016

Just two years after the blood-testing company Theranos was valued at $9 billion, the company has announced that it will close its clinical labs and blood-test centers and cut more than 40 percent of its staff. Theranos says it is shifting [more...]

Two-Dimensional MEMS Arrays Pave Way for Mobile Spectrometers

October 9, 2016

Figure 1. A micromirror structure with a 17° tilt angle. Courtesy of Texas Instruments. In the field of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, a system that combines portability with the accuracy and functionality of high-performance [more...]

Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals

September 26, 2016

Left to right: PhD student Fadel Adib, PhD student Mingmin Zhao, and Professor Dina Katabi pose with their EQ-Radio device, which can detect emotion using wireless signals (Image Photo: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL) As many a relationship book [more...]

T2 Biosystems Announces $40 Million Equity Investment by Partner Canon U.S.A.

September 26, 2016

LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 22, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — T2 Biosystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTOO), a company developing innovative diagnostic products to improve patient health, today announced the purchase by Canon U.S.A., of approximately $40 [more...]

mFluiDx Uses Mobile and the Cloud to Enable Disease Diagnosis in the Field

September 18, 2016

The Zika outbreak continues to worry the world, yet diagnosing the virus, and any other viruses for that matter, requires a test that is complicated and expensive, not mention difficult to get in and out of the field. mFluiDx is a startup [more...]

New Optofluidic Platform Features Tunable Optics and Novel ‘Lightvalves’

September 18, 2016

A new optofluidic platform for biological sample processing and optical analysis is made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and features tunable optics and novel ‘lightvalves.’ (Photo by C. Lagattuta) For well over a decade, [more...]

Sanofi, Google Parent form $500 Million Diabetes Joint Venture

September 18, 2016

French drugmaker Sanofi (SASY.PA) and Verily, the life sciences unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc(GOOGL.O), on Monday said they would invest about $500 million in a joint venture combining devices with services to improve diabetes care, [more...]

A Miniaturized Sensor That Can Measure Chemistry On-Chip

August 26, 2016

Light traveling through a nanoscale waveguide on a hip spreads beyond the waveguide and can interact with molecules above the surface of the chip. (Image Credit: Cornell University) By combining expertise in photonics – [more...]

The First Autonomous, Entirely Soft Robot, ‘Octobot’ Has No Electronics

August 26, 2016

The octobot, an entirely soft robot, is powered without electronics; instead microfluidic channels containing chemical reactions automate its movements. (Image Credit: Lori Sanders, Ryan Truby, Michael Wehner, Robert Wood, and Jennifer [more...]

Scientists Want To Make A Braille Screen For Tablets Using Microfluidics

January 17, 2016

A prototype of the tablet, which uses air or fluid to raise the dots that create braille letters (Image Credit: Kelly O’Sullivan, University of Michigan College of Engineering) An inexpensive, full-page Braille tablet could make [more...]

Chinese Researchers Develop Process to Laser 3D Print Microcavity Processing Technologies

November 9, 2015

Whispering-gallery modes are the phenomena of waves traveling along the curve of a concave surface without degrading. The concept was first explained by Lord Rayleigh in 1878 as he explained the effect that produced traveling whispers in [more...]