BioMEMS

A Microrobot for Intravascular Treatments

December 24, 2018

A particular challenge in intravascular treatments is the control of submillimeter guidewires. This requires a new microrobotics approach. A soft magnetic microrobot is required, consisting of (1) a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) [more...]

Primoceler Inc and SCHOTT AG to Join Forces

July 13, 2018

Schott, the specialty glass and glass-ceramics giant, owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, has entered into an agreement to acquire Primoceler Oy, a Finnish pioneer in glass micro bonding, based in Tampere. Primoceler’s hermetic [more...]

Medical Sensors Design Conference

June 24, 2018

Rapid advances in medical technology, and the increasing need to store and rapidly access data are making sensors an important part of the medical landscape. At the Medical Sensors Design Conference June 25 through 26 at the McEnery [more...]

Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions

June 24, 2018

A low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic could be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases. (Image Credit: KAUST) An international team of [more...]

Nanomedical Diagnostics Releases Report on Affinity Ranking for Hit Validation

May 15, 2018

Agile R100 Nanomedical Diagnostics, leading manufacturer of graphene biosensors that accelerate pharmaceutical and biotherapeutics development, released a report for biochemists and chemists entitled, “Affinity Ranking of Small [more...]

Microsensor Could Help Individualize Dialysis Treatment

April 15, 2018

Microscope picture of the microfluidic device developed by researcher Manoj Sharma. The horizontal stripe is the microchannel, which measures 0.2 mm across. The six other stripes are optic fibers that capture the fluorescent light and lead [more...]

Vibrating Sensors Could Identify Blood Biomarkers

December 2, 2017

Purdue University researchers have found a method of identifying biological markers in small amounts of blood that they believe could be used to detect a myriad of diseases, infections and different medical conditions at early stages. [more...]

1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications

November 1, 2017

Letter from Editor: I am pleased to announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications, which will be held on 1-15 November 2017 on this special platform, Sciforum, developed by MDPI in 2017. The [more...]

Engineers Receive $1 Million for Implantable System to Detect Lung Cancer

September 17, 2017

Future medical diagnostic tools may get under your skin — literally. An interdisciplinary team of UB engineers, working with Intel Corp. and Garwood Medical Devices, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop [more...]

Microfluidics and Nanotechnology: Biosensing to the Single Molecule Limit

September 17, 2017

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Liang-Yin Chu, Wei Wang ISBN: 978-3-527-34182-5 336 pages June 2017 Summary An increasing number of technologies are being used to detect minute quantities of biomolecules and [more...]

Roche Joins Senseonics, TypeZero for Artificial Pancreas Trials

August 16, 2017

Senseonics and TypeZero’s R&D partnership around the artificial pancreas is leveling up. The two organizations announced today that they would team up with pharmaceutical and medical device company Roche to launch three European [more...]

2nd Microfluidics Congress: USA-2017

July 24, 2017

Global Engage is pleased to announce the Microfluidics Congress: USA, which will be held on July 24-26th, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue. There will also be pre-meeting training courses. For more [more...]

Skin Vaccination with Microneedle Patch

July 23, 2017

Biodegradable micro-needle patch (image credit: Georgia State University) A boosting skin vaccination with a biodegradable microneedle patch and protein constructed from sequences of influenza virus subtypes could improve the effectiveness [more...]

‘Smart’ Insulin Patches Developed at UNC

July 4, 2017

Glucose-responsive “smart insulin patches” like this one developed by UNC and N.C. State could one day simplify the way people manage diabetes.( Image credit: COURTESY OF ZHEN GU) For the 29 million Americans living with diabetes, a [more...]

New Implantable Biosensor Could Monitor Cell-Level Changes in Patients

June 24, 2017

The idea behind Efferent Labs – implanting a device containing living cells into the body to act as a biologic sensor – has attracted the attention of the scientific community. Although it is extremely difficult technically, the idea [more...]

Faster Biosensor for Healthcare Developed

April 27, 2017

DGIST research team led by Professor CheolGi Kim has developed a biosensor platform which has 20 times faster detection capability than the existing biosensors using magnetic patterns resembling a spider web. The sensing capability of a [more...]

Microflow Sensor, Micropump Combine for Single-use Drug Delivery Module

March 28, 2017

Fraunhofer EMFT’s silicon micropump has been combined with Sensirion’s LD20 single-use liquid flow sensor to develop a smart and cost-efficient miniaturized module for controlled and monitored drug delivery. This highly integrated [more...]

Ingestible Sensor Is Powered by Stomach Acid

February 19, 2017

The small, ingestible voltaic cell is sustained by the acidic fluids in the stomach. (Credit: Diemut Strebe) Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US have designed and developed an indigestible electronic device [more...]

Cell Smasher

February 18, 2017

Real-time on chip mechanical analysis with micro hammer(Image credit: UCSB) The world’s tiniest hammer will allow UCSB researchers to get a cellular-level understanding of what happens when force is applied to brain cells. We’re all [more...]

SPIE -Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XV 2017

January 28, 2017

The purpose of this conference is to provide an international technical forum to showcase recent advances in microfluidics, BioMEMS, and medical microsystems. Microfluidic devices and systems have created a tremendous interest in many [more...]