cell culture

Leti and Cellmic LLC Join Forces to Accelerate Market Adoption of Lens-free Diagnostics

May 6, 2018

Figure DxCELL is operated by the built-in phone integrated into the reader and uses the camera on the phone to capture and process test data (Image credit: Cellmic ) Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company [more...]

Organ-on-a-chip: a New Model of Microfluidic Chip

April 22, 2018

Cells in a microwell and their growth after two days of perfusion An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device with continuously perfused chambers in which cells are cultured to obtain functional units that mimic organ functions. The [more...]

Corning and CytoSMART Announce Agreement for Cell Counting Device

March 25, 2018

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and CytoSMART Technologies BV today announced an agreement that will simplify mammalian cell counting in laboratories around the world. Cell counting is a critical step in subcultivation in the cell culture [more...]

Adding Depth to Cell Culture

June 18, 2017

As a postdoc studying human brain development and what goes wrong in conditions such as microencephaly, Madeline Lancaster faced the same familiar problems as her fellow lab researchers. For example, mice brains don’t behave or develop [more...]

3-D Model of Human Brain Development and Disease

May 13, 2017

After spheroids representing two different brain regions fuse in a dish, neurons from one spheroid (green) migrate into the other and forge connections with the neurons there. (Image Credit: Pasca lab, Stanford University) Brain [more...]

Magnet Inserts Help to Close a Modular Chip for Cell Culture

March 21, 2017

Figure 1. A cartoon of the modular microfluidic system (Image credit: Pitingolo etc, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering) Exploiting a magnetic process, IIT (Istituto Italiano di tecnologia) researchers have developed a modular [more...]

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook: Chemistry, Physics, and Life Science Principles

August 1, 2016

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Authors: Sushanta K. Mitra, Suman Chakraborty, September 20, 2011 by CRC Press Summary The Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook: Two-Volume Set comprehensively captures the [more...]

Microfluidic Cell Culture

July 20, 2016

Microfluidics Microfluidics technology is characterized by the manipulation of small volumes of fluids (10-9 to 10-18 liters) in channels with dimensions of tens of micrometers. Certain properties of microfluidic technologies such as rapid [more...]

Gut-On-a-Chip Holds Clues for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

December 17, 2015

Roughly the size of a computer memory stick and made of clear flexible polymer, the human gut-on-a-chip was created by Harvard Univ.’s Wyss Institute in 2012. Three years later, researchers are utilizing the technology in hopes of [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...]

Capturing Cell Growth in 3D with Microfluidic Device

August 15, 2015

AIM Biotech’s microfluidics device (shown here) has an array of culturing sections, each with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, and two side channels for culturing additional cell types. Replicating how [more...]

LumaCyte’s Radiance Instrument for Label-free Single Cell Analysis and Sorting

August 2, 2015

LumaCyte’s mission is to provide scientists and researchers with transformational research tools that accelerate biological and pharmaceutical discovery through a novel, label-free approach to single-cell analysis and sorting. A Need for [more...]

Is Now the Time to Move Your Research to 3D Cell Culture?

July 28, 2015

Cancer Spheroids, Image Courtesy of Molecular Devices Introduction Mammalian cell culture has been used in research and drug discovery for many years. The use of this technology has resulted in many key discoveries in developmental [more...]

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...]

Microfluidics’ Watershed Moment

June 28, 2015

The HµRELflow™ cell-based assay system has three microfluidic devices on a biochip. Each device incorporates two cell culture compartments interconnected by microscale channels. Integrated micropumps recirculate culture media within the [more...]

Microfluidic Cell Culture Systems (Micro and Nano Technologies)

June 28, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | Elsevier Link The fields of microfluidics and BioMEMS are significantly impacting cell biology research and applications through the application of engineering solutions to human disease and health problems. [more...]

Nanofiber Band-Aid for Broken Hearts

June 21, 2015

Immunofluorescence image showing expression of cardiomyocyte marker α-sarcomeric actinin (green color); Nuclei (blue color); and Aligned nanofiber (red Color) in the cardiac patch in vitro. (Image credit: Ohio State University Center for [more...]

Body on a Chip: Mimicking the Body On a Chip For New Drug Testing

June 11, 2015

Scientists in an EU-supported project have developed a microfluidic chip that simultaneously analyses the reactions of several human organ tissues when they come into contact with candidates for new drugs. The ground-breaking device could [more...]

Placenta-on-a-Chip: Universal Drug Testing Using Microfluidics

May 2, 2015

Placenta-on-a-chip prototype (Photo credit: Hashemi Lab from Iowa State University) Organ-on-a-chip technology is a rapidly growing segment within the field of microfluidics. These microscale chips combine cell biology with the [more...]

Microfluidics for Accelerated Drug Assays

April 12, 2015

Multiple microwells on Yevgeny Berdichevsky’s assay chips make it possible to test up to 18 drug candidates at a time. (Image Credit: Linda Nye) Approximately 125,000 Americans each year develop epilepsy, a brain disease marked by [more...]