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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 a microfluidic device by [more...]

MIT Engineers Make Microfluidics Modular Using the Popular Interlocking Blocks

March 4, 2018

MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at submillimeter scales. Such devices typically take the form of flat, [more...]

Microscopic Magnetic Blocks Group Together to Control Individual Cells

August 16, 2017

Collaborators from North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a method to remotely manipulate cells and other tiny objects in a liquid medium using magnets and what looks like articulating microscopic Lego blocks. [more...]

IBM Scientists Use Lab-on-a-Chip Nanochannel Technology Designed to “Stretch” DNA to Help Detect Disease

May 29, 2017

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a “lab-on-a-chip” technology that can stretch double-stranded DNA molecules with the potential to efficiently reveal biomarkers that may indicate disease. This technology complements the IBM [more...]

TrueSurface – The Original Topographic Raman Imaging System

March 26, 2017

WITec, the inventor of topographic Raman imaging, present the next generation of the TrueSurface Microscopy. The combination of surface analysis and Raman spectral acquisition enables topographic Raman imaging on rough and uneven samples. [more...]

Vortex Biosciences Announces Commercial Launch of Fully Automated System for CTC Isolation

February 26, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA, February 21 – Vortex Biosciences announced the commercial launch of the VTX-1 Liquid Biopsy System, a fully automated benchtop system for collecting intact circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that are shed by tumors, using [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...]

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...]

IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer

August 2, 2016

A view of IBM’s lab-on-a-chip mounted in a microfluidic jig. IBM scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians [more...]

3D Printing Liquid Metal Fugitive Inks

July 2, 2016

Direct-writing liquid metal as a sacrificial template for molding of microfluidic channels Researchers at NC State have developed a new method to create microfluidic channels and micro-vasculature in polymers by 3D printing liquid metal [more...]

Implantable, Artificial Kidney To Be Powered By Patient’s Own Heart

March 20, 2016

Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and associate professor of medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is developing a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial [more...]

NIST Simulates Fast, Accurate DNA Sequencing Through Graphene Nanopore

January 23, 2016

NIST concept for DNA sequencing through a graphene nanopore (Image Credit: Smolyanitsky/NIST) Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have simulated a new concept for rapid, accurate gene sequencing by [more...]

Spermbot Could Help Solve Male Infertility

January 17, 2016

A National Survey of Family Growth found that 7.5 percent of sexually experienced men under the age of 45 have seen a fertility doctor. That percentage correlates to between 3.3 and 4.7 million men. Of those men, around 17 percent were [more...]

Tracing A Cellular Family Tree In A Microfluidic Device

January 7, 2016

Researchers engineered a microfluidic device that traps first an individual cell and then all of its descendants (Image Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT) By combining sophisticated RNA sequencing technology with a new device that isolates [more...]

World of Microfluidics European Micro Cup Explainer Videos

December 2, 2015

The research field of Microfluidics involves the development of technologies for the transport and processing of liquids in structures whose size is in the micrometer range. These technologies form the basis for a variety of applications [more...]

Microscopic Pumps Made From Trapped Bacteria

November 4, 2015

Five confined bacteria create a measurable fluid flow, as shown by the colour-coded trajectories on the right Scientists in China have trapped bacteria in 3D-printed structures and used them to pump materials along customised paths. [more...]

Lab-on-Chip platform technologies for Point-of-Care testing and Cell Culturing

August 23, 2015

Authors Mark Olde Riekerink, Monica Brivio, Elvin Vrouwe and Marko Blom Introduction Lab-on-a-chip technologies are increasingly and successfully being applied in many application fields within chemistry and life science, including [more...]

Stanford Engineering Team Invents Pressure Sensor That Uses Radio Waves

August 7, 2015

Stanford University engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries. The underlying technology has such broad potential that it could one day be used [more...]

Infertility Diagnosis Comes to Your iPad with Microfluidic Chip

July 28, 2015

Sperm fertility analyzer with iPad (Image from aidmics) It’s certainly no secret that the movement of medtech out of hospitals and doctors’ offices and into the homes of people is a major trend in the industry. Offering cost savings [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 to create a diagnostic test [more...]