Sculpting How Chemicals Spread In Fluid Flows
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 [more...]
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Microfluidics and Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics
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 [more...]
Technology Brings New Precision to Study of Circadian Rhythm in Individual Cells
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 [more...]
Journal of Micromachine Calls for Papers, Special Issue “Insights and Advancements in Microfluidics”
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
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 [more...]
Droplet-based Testing of Biochemical Reactions in 10,000 Different Conditions
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 [more...]
Survey on Microfluidic Testing Open for Experts
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 [more...]
Organ-On-A-Chip Startup, Emulate, Grabs $45M to Shake Up Drug Discovery
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 [more...]
3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors
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
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 [more...]
Two-Dimensional MEMS Arrays Pave Way for Mobile Spectrometers
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 [more...]
Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals
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 [more...]
T2 Biosystems Announces $40 Million Equity Investment by Partner Canon U.S.A.
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 [more...]
mFluiDx Uses Mobile and the Cloud to Enable Disease Diagnosis in the Field
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 [more...]
New Optofluidic Platform Features Tunable Optics and Novel ‘Lightvalves’
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 [more...]
Sanofi, Google Parent form $500 Million Diabetes Joint Venture
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 [more...]
A Miniaturized Sensor That Can Measure Chemistry On-Chip
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 [more...]
The First Autonomous, Entirely Soft Robot, ‘Octobot’ Has No Electronics
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 [more...]
Scientists Want To Make A Braille Screen For Tablets Using Microfluidics
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, [more...]
Chinese Researchers Develop Process to Laser 3D Print Microcavity Processing Technologies
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 [more...]
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