Biosensor

Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2016 (APCOT2016)

January 17, 2016

Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2016 (APCOT2016) will be held in Kanazawa, Japan from 26-29 June, 2016. The conference provides an interactive forum for presentation and discussion on [more...]

Microbots Individually Controlled Using Mini Force Fields

January 17, 2016

This image shows how two microbots can be independently controlled when operating within a group, an advance aimed at using the tiny machines for applications such as advanced manufacturing and [more...]

A Microfluidic Biochip For Blood Cell Counts At The Point-of-care

January 1, 2016

Electrical counting of blood cells. (a) Schematic of the biosensor used for total leukocyte and its differential counts. The inset shows the micro-fabricated coplanar electrodes aligned with the cell counting [more...]

New Biosensor Provides Spatially Resolved Hydrogen Peroxide Sensing in Cells

January 1, 2016

This super-resolution fluorescence microscopy image of HyPer-Tau shows the microtubular structure of a human cancer cell. The image was made using the new super-resolution microscope in the Georgia Tech Institute [more...]

Monitoring Critical Blood Levels in Real Time in the ICU

October 31, 2015

The biosensor and the app aimed at monitoring the results in real-time (Image credit: Alain Herzog/EPFL 2015) For patients in intensive care, knowing how much glucose, lactate and other substances [more...]

Air Force Successfully Tests Wearable Biometric Sensors

October 11, 2015

Flexible and wearable biometric sensor (Image credit: Mark Pomerleau from GCN) The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Tech Warrior exercises give airmen a chance to test new equipment and allow scientists and [more...]

BioMEMS: Science and Engineering Perspectives

August 15, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Authors: Simona Badilescu, Muthukumaran Packirisamy Summary As technological advancements widen the scope of applications for biomicroelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS or biomicrosystems), [more...]

Nano-Optomechanical Resonators in Microfluidics

August 15, 2015

Microwheel resonator integrated in microfluidic system (Image Credit: Tang et al) Scientists at Yale University in the US have made a nano-optomechanical resonator that can weigh objects as light as [more...]

Microresonators Could Bring Optical Sensors, Communications

August 12, 2015

Researchers are developing “microresonators” for miniature optical sensors and other potential applications. The technology is based on the reliable generation and control of laser pulses containing a number of equally [more...]

An Optical Sensor Platform Based on Nanopaper

August 7, 2015

Spots for individual assays made of nanopaper-based composites on a glass slide. (Image: Eden Morales-Narváez, Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia) Nanopaper, made from cellulose like traditional paper, shows much [more...]

Tiny Biochemical Sensor Provides Real-time Cancer Monitoring

August 5, 2015

Illustration of the tiny biochemical sensor that can be implanted in cancerous tissue during an initial biopsy (Image Credit: Michael Cima et al, MIT) In the battle against cancer, which [more...]

New Biosensors for Managing Microbial Workers

August 5, 2015

New biosensors developed by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member George Church enable complex genetic re–programming of common bacteria like E. coli and could be leveraged for sustainable biomanufacturing, using the [more...]

Biomedical Microsystems

August 2, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Ellis Meng Poised to dramatically impact human health, biomedical microsystems (bioMEMS) technologies incorporate various aspects from materials science, biology, chemistry, [more...]

Your Smartphone Could One Day Tell You You Are Pregnant

July 5, 2015

A fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-sensor developed for smartphones is pictured. (Image Credit: Kort Bremer, Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies) Researchers at the Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), [more...]

Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics 2015

July 5, 2015

Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics 2015 (AMN2015) is the sixth conference after successful meetings previously held in Hong Kong (2009), Singapore (2011), Dalian, China (2012), Notre Dame, USA (2013), Taipei, [more...]

Eurosensors 2015

July 5, 2015

EUROSENSORS 2015, the XXIX edition of the conference series, will be held in Freiburg, Germany, from September 6 to 9, 2015. For 29 years the EUROSENSORS Conference has been an [more...]

Real-time Listeria Biosensor Prototype Uses Nanobrushes

June 21, 2015

The prototype listeria biosensor chip is a little smaller than postage stamp. Dr. Carmen Gomes, Texas A&M AgriLife Research engineer, said even at this early stage of development, the sensor [more...]

Special Issue of Advances in Microfluidic Devices for Cell Handling and Analysis on the Open Access Journal- Micromachines

June 15, 2015

Dear Colleagues, Microfluidics is a technology characterized by the engineered manipulation of fluids at the submillimeter scale, which dramatically improved diagnostics and biology research. Certain properties of microfluidic [more...]

Physicists Develop Ultrasensitive Nanomechanical Biosensor

June 10, 2015

Image showing the principle of the sensor (Courtesy of Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov) Two young researchers working at the MIPT Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics, Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, [more...]

Measuring The Mass of Molecules on The Nanoscale

June 4, 2015

Coupled microcantilevers are placed on the XY-axis-stage and moved by the piezoelectric actuator according to the proposed feedback control to produce self-excited oscillation. Working with a device that slightly resembles [more...]