Digital Microfluidics

Magnetic Digital Microfluidics – A Review

March 26, 2017

A digital microfluidic platform manipulates droplets on an open surface. Magnetic digital microfluidics utilizes magnetic forces for actuation and offers unique advantages compared to other digital microfluidic platforms. First, the [more...]

Miroculus Acquires Kapplex to Advance Diagnostics for Complex Diseases

May 9, 2016

Miroculus, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company specializing in microRNA-based diagnostics, today announced an agreement to acquire Toronto-based Kapplex Inc. The Canadian company’s proprietary Digital Microfluidic (DMF) platform [more...]

Digital Microfluidics Keeps Track of Quick-Fire Cell Signals

June 28, 2015

Amidst the crackle of cellular signaling, it can be hard to distinguish between cells that are quick on the draw, and those that take a long time “drawing a bead” before they finally fire. When the smoke clears, it may be too late to [more...]

Digital Microfluidics Enables Analysis of Multiple Steroid Hormones for Breast Cancer

May 29, 2015

Steroid hormone testing in the clinic relies on immunoassays or liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS) analysis of blood or urine samples, but there are cases where it is necessary to analyze tissue, such as in the [more...]

New Platforms Genetically Barcode Tens of Thousands of Cells At a Time

May 27, 2015

Screenshot of microfluidic devices for genetically barcoding ( from: Harvard Medical School) Imagine someone hands you a smoothie and asks you to identify everything that went into it. You might be able to discern a hint of strawberry or [more...]

UCI Receives Up to $5 Million to Advance Bloodstream Infection Detection Technology

May 17, 2015

“Rapid, precise diagnostics is vitally important to limit the spread of infections in the healthcare environment and to provide patients the prompt and exact treatments they need,” Weian Zhao said. A UC Irvine research team will [more...]

FIRST Dolomite Microfluidic Workshop-Free

April 28, 2015

Dolomite are holding their first FREE 1-day microfluidics workshop in Cambridge, MA, USA on the 28th April, 2015. This workshop will benefit anyone who is looking to improve their knowledge about latest microfluidic technologies and [more...]

Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets

January 29, 2015

Banerjee, A.; Noh, J.H.; Liu, Y.; Rack, P.D.; Papautsky, I. Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets. Micromachines 2015, 6, 172-185; doi:10.3390/mi6020172. In this work, we demonstrate continuous and discrete functions in a [more...]

A Decentralized Surveillance System for Measles and Rubella Powered by Paper-Based Digital Microfluidics

December 8, 2014

Fig 1. Microfluidic device ( Credit: Wheeler Microfluidics Laboratory) Grand Chanllenges Canada reported that a decentralized monitoring system based on DropBot and digital microfluidics will be used to test for measles and rubella [more...]