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Interview with Vortex Biosciences’ Microfluidic Technology

June 10, 2018

Personalized medicine is a term we’ve heard for years. The ability to tailor a patient’s treatment type and dosage to obtain the best response is a holy grail for cancer researchers and clinicians. To this end, new technologies are in [more...]

Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Diagnostics Global Market Top Key Players

December 13, 2017

Cancer is diagnosed by blood count, bone marrow biopsy, and molecular identification of mutated cells. CTC diagnostics helps in the identification of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) shed by tumor cells. CTCs are cancerous cells which detach [more...]

The Making of a Medical Microchip

June 18, 2017

This chip, developed by Fluidigm, can be used in a microfluidics system to analyse genomic information from samples as small as a single cell (Image credit: Fluidigm) The bioengineers in Dino Di Carlo’s lab at the University of [more...]

Microfluidics in the Clinical Lab

December 28, 2016

From Admin: In this article, the author uses non-tech analogies from everyday life to explain some key microfluidics principles that govern the behaviors of flow in micro scale domain. The advantages of using microfluidics system have been [more...]

Blood Test Could Provide Cheaper, Better Way for Doctors to Manage Lung Cancer

December 19, 2016

Profiling the genes of lung-tumor cells from patient blood samples may be a cheap, noninvasive way to help doctors choose the right treatments, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The new [more...]

Isolation of Single Circulating Tumour Cells with Microfluidic Chip

October 2, 2016

The single cell isolation microfluidic chip (Image Credit: National University of Singapore) A microfluidic chip invented by engineers from NUS and start-up Clearbridge mFluidics is a world’s first in using microfluidic flow to isolate [more...]

New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

July 14, 2016

A photo of three microfluidic devices filled with food color dyes. The device, about the size of a credit card, is designed to help scientists narrow in on safe ranges of electric fields that might be used to noninvasively treat breast, [more...]

DNA Cancer Test Gets Backing from Amazon, Microsoft Founders

January 17, 2016

A small number of companies are working to disrupt the blood testing industry (Image from Wikipedia) Illumina, one of the largest DNA sequencing companies, has announced the formation of a startup known as Grail, which plans to develop [more...]

Catching Circulating Tumor Cells

November 25, 2015

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) give a valuable insight into tumor progression and metastasis. Therefore, it is important to detect, capture, and analyze CTCs in the blood of patients with malignant tumors. In their review, Yong-Qiang Li [more...]

The Lab-on-Chip Revolution: Finding the Right Niche

October 24, 2015

To trim costs and simplify the design of microfluidic devices, USC’s Krisna Bhargava has harnessed 3D printing to produce modular, Lego-style components for housing the elements of microfluidic systems. In laboratories ranging from [more...]

Microfluidic Chip Captures Clusters of Circulating Tumor Cells-NIH Study

May 21, 2015

Magnification of circulating tumor cell cluster captured by Cluster-Chip. (Image Credit: Sarioglu et al., Nature Methods) Researchers have developed a microfluidic chip that can capture rare clusters of circulating tumor cells, which [more...]