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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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]
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