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3-D Organoids Grown from Patient Tumors Could Personalize Drug Screening

July 4, 2015

Cancer in 3-D (Image Credit: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Three-dimensional cultures (or “organoids”) derived from the tumors of cancer patients closely replicate key properties of the original tumors, reveals a study [more...]

Heartbeat On a Chip

June 21, 2015

Heartbeat Chip Test (Image credit: Michigan Engineering) The ability to accurately test drugs and therapies for human use is a goal we desperately need to reach. Often animals are used [more...]

Energy Harnessed From Humidity Can Power Small Devices- Very Cool!

June 21, 2015

The difference in humidity between the enclosed portion of this Ferris wheel–like device (at right) and the open air (left) cause the curved plastic strips to expand and contract, triggering [more...]

Nanoparticles: Great Promise Against Cancer

May 27, 2015

The advancement of nanotechnology in the past decade has driven the development of numerous medical applications. None of them is as promising as the use of targeted nanoparticles aimed to [more...]

Unibody Lab-on-a-chip Fast Prototyping

May 10, 2015

Author: Germán Comina, Anke Suska and Daniel Filippini Optical Devices Laboratory (ODL) Linkoping University, Sweden Introduction: The development of disposable devices for optical chemical detection with cell phones, entail challenging [more...]

Recent Developments in Droplet Based Microfluidic Technologies

May 10, 2015

Application Engineer: Ashok Sinha, Dolomite Microfluidics, UK Introduction: This presentation addresses on the microfluidics market, identifies technological bottlenecks, and showcases a few successful and fast growing applications. [more...]

Smartphone Video Microscope Automates Detection of Parasites in Blood

May 8, 2015

A schematic of the CellScope Loa device, a mobile phone-based video microscope. The device includes a 3D-printed case housing simple optics, circuitry and controllers to help process the sample of [more...]

Seven Low-Cost Devices for Diagnosing Diseases in Poor Countries

April 9, 2015

Every year, 1 million people die from malaria, more than 4 million from respiratory infections, 3 million from intestinal infections and 5 million due to AIDS and tuberculosis. Also, other [more...]

µParaflo® Microfluidic Synthesis Platform

April 6, 2015

µParaflo® microfluidic chip (Image Credit: LC Sciences) A requirement common for all targeted sequencing methods, whether hybridization capture based or multiplex PCR based is a need for large numbers of [more...]

Biotechnology in a Microchip

March 22, 2015

Finding a needle in a haystack seems difficult? What if we reduce the haystack to the scale of the needle? This is what Bio-MicroElectroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS) are designed for, in [more...]

New Approach to 3D Printing Technology, Carbon3D Unveils Breakthrough CLIP

March 17, 2015

Principle of Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP), Image Credit: Carbon3D In what may be one of the biggest stories we have covered this year, a new company, Carbon3D has just emerged [more...]

Beauty of Science: Droplet Dancing-II

March 14, 2015

Fascinating droplets mixed from water and food coloring show complex movement and interactions. (Image Credit: Kurt Hickman, Stanford University) Nate Cira was working in a lab as an undergraduate at University [more...]

Hearts-on-a-chip Could Aid Drug Screening

March 9, 2015

UC Berkeley researchers have created a ‘heart-on-a-chip’ that effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications. The [more...]

Graphene Structures Created with 3D Printing

February 21, 2015

Image Credit: Advanced Materials/Esther García-Tuñon et al. Researchers have created a graphene composite paste that can be 3D printed into complex, patterned structures. Super-strong, super-light, durable-yet-flexible two-dimensional [more...]

Tiny Treasure: The Future of Nano-gold (Nature Videos)

February 21, 2015

Lumps of gold moulded into rings, coins and ingots have been highly prized for millennia. But recently, scientists have realized that tiny pieces of this precious metal – far too [more...]

Low-tech Microfluidics

February 11, 2015

Microfluidic chips made in the Science Practice studio “This article is written by Dr Tempest van Schaik and has been reposted with permission from the Science Practice blog. Science Practice is a research and [more...]

BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, Lecture Series from Wayne State University

February 4, 2015

Professor Amar Basu from Wayne State University is posting video lectures from his course, BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, offered in the Winter semester 2015. This course is an interdisciplinary graduate level course is open to [more...]

Lab Rats? No, Lab Chips

February 4, 2015

Using the compact multi-organ chip (comparable in size to a one-euro piece), and those of three separate microcircuits, researchers can study the regeneration of certain kidney cells. (Credit: Fraunhofer IWS) [more...]

Tiny Microfluidic Device Helps Analyze Behavior of Blood from Sickle Cell Disease Patients

January 20, 2015

Patients with sickle cell disease often suffer from painful attacks known as vaso-occlusive crises, during which their sickle-shaped blood cells get stuck in tiny capillaries, depriving tissues of needed oxygen. [more...]

Why Rain Has That Distinctive Smell

January 20, 2015

Aerosol generation after drop impingement on porous media is a three-step process, consisting of bubble formation, bubble growth, and bubble bursting. Image Credit: Youngsoo Joung, MIT Ever notice an earthy [more...]