Articles by yzhou24

Femtosecond Laser Processing Of Metal And Plastics In The Medical Device Industry

November 8, 2015

Authors: Steven Hypsh, Jenoptik, and Geoff Shannon, Miyachi America Microsecond (ms) fiber lasers have been successfully used for medical device applications like hypo tube and stent cutting for many years. [more...]

Laser Microfabrication Takes on Diagnostic Consumables: Part 1

November 8, 2015

Figure 1: A diagram of a multi-functional microfluidic chip. (This sketch is not intended to represent a real device; it is or illustration purposes only) Advances in laser technology is [more...]

Laser Microfabrication Takes on Diagnostic Consumables: Part 2

November 8, 2015

Figure 1. Sequential and parallel laser micromachining Fundamentals of Laser Micromachining The microfabrication of diagnostic platforms uses many different manufacturing techniques such as photolithography, micro-molding, etching, and [more...]

The Lab-on-Chip Revolution: Finding the Right Niche

October 24, 2015

To trim costs and simplify the design of microfluidic devices, USC’s Krisna Bhargava has harnessed 3D printing to produce modular, Lego-style components for housing the elements of microfluidic systems. In [more...]

Creating Microchannels with a 3-D Printer

October 5, 2015

Bionanotechnologists from Wageningen University have developed a new, inexpensive way to make microfluidic devices without using costly materials or cleanroom facilities. The technique, which uses a 3D printer and Lego [more...]

Liquid Cooling Moves Onto The Chip for Denser Electronics

October 5, 2015

Liquid cooling ports: Liquid ports carry cooling water to specially designed passages etched into the backs of FPGA devices to provide more effective cooling. The liquid cooling provides a significant [more...]

Hybrid Chip Enables Reliable Direct Detection of Ebola

September 27, 2015

This hybrid device integrates a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection of individual molecules of viral RNA. (Image Credit: Joshua Parks) A team led by [more...]

Recent Advances in Optical Fiber Devices For Microfluidics Integration

September 13, 2015

Detection and trapping of molecules can be achieved with optical fibers directly located within the fluidic microchannel. This paper examines the recent emergence of miniaturized optical fiber based sensing and actuating [more...]

FDA Clears Single Blood Drop Test for Earlier Pregnancy Detection

August 25, 2015

NOWDiagnostics‘ ADEXUSDx product line features a lab at your fingertip, using only a single drop of blood to test for a variety of common conditions, illnesses and diseases with results [more...]

Hydrogel Stretches and Contracts Like a Heat-driven Muscle

August 15, 2015

These are pictures showing the changing shape of the hydrogel as it ‘walks’ in a water environment in responses to changes of temperature. (Credit: Kim et al. Nature Materials) In [more...]

Device Delivers Drugs to Brain Via Remote Control

July 20, 2015

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs. [more...]

Inkjet Printing Innovation Opens The Door To Instant Personalised Health Testing

July 20, 2015

New technology from product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is set to bring radical innovation to the diagnostics market. Ingenious use of inkjet printing techniques has made it possible [more...]

Lab-on-Paper for Rapid, Inexpensive Medical Diagnostics

March 18, 2015

Labonachip LLC, a diagnostics company A team of University of Rhode Island engineers led by Professor Mohammad Faghri has created a new paper-based platform for conducting a wide range of [more...]

Glucose Sensor Allows Single Point-of-Entry Artificial Pancreas

March 18, 2015

To create new types of sensors, gold films are patterned onto a substrate using microcontract printing and etching. (Credit: Oregon State University) Engineers at Oregon State University have used “additive [more...]

Ultrasonic Welded Microfluidic Device for In vitro Diagnostics

January 11, 2015

Welding with ultrasonic vibrations is a cost-effective and safe method for joining the two halves of a polystyrene microfluidic test chip in such a way that the function is assured. [more...]

A Simple and Low Cost Method to Fabricate NOA Microfluidic Chips

January 11, 2015

Microfluidic chips are often made of silicon or glass which presents the drawbacks of being relatively expensive, time consuming and has limitations to the geometries that can be realized. PMMA [more...]

Material Incorporates DNA for a New Class of Biosensors

January 9, 2015

A lipid membrane functionalised with DNA-linkers. (Credit: Lorenzo Di Michele) A new responsive material ‘glued’ together with short strands of DNA, and capable of translating thermal and chemical signals into [more...]

Top Flow Cytometry Instruments, Reagents and Software To Look Forward to In 2015

January 9, 2015

I. Instrumentation The field of flow cytometry is seeing various trends in instrumentation–on one end are smaller, more compact and more powerful instruments for the high end needs of researchers, [more...]

From a Pile of Dirt, Researchers Discover New Antibiotic

January 9, 2015

A new microfluidic device lets scientists identify a powerful drug from nature. A plastic storage crate filled with backyard dirt might have yielded the most powerful antibiotic discovered in decades. [more...]

Microfluidic Hydraulic Circuits-Hydraulic Resistance and Capacitance

January 4, 2015

This tutorial video is from Cornell University Mechanical Engineering 6240 – Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics – 29 Aug 2012. A discussion of the matrix formalism for solving P=QR [more...]