Droplet

A Double Emulsion-Based, Plastic-Glass Hybrid Microfluidic Platform for Protein Crystallization

November 3, 2015

By Deyong Zhu, Xiaohu Zhou and Professor Bo Zheng of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China This paper reports the design and construction of a plastic-glass hybrid microfluidic platform for performing protein crystallization [more...]

Single-Cell Analysis: Powerful Drops in the Bucket

June 8, 2015

If you’re curious what innovations are coming out of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, take a look at this video shot via a microscope. What at first glance looks like water dripping [more...]

Recent Developments in Droplet Based Microfluidic Technologies

May 10, 2015

Application Engineer: Ashok Sinha, Dolomite Microfluidics, UK Introduction: This presentation addresses on the microfluidics market, identifies technological bottlenecks, and showcases a few successful and fast growing applications. [more...]

Beauty of Science: Droplet Dancing-II

March 14, 2015

Fascinating droplets mixed from water and food coloring show complex movement and interactions. (Image Credit: Kurt Hickman, Stanford University) Nate Cira was working in a lab as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin–Madison [more...]

Flow Cytometry and Inkjet Technology

October 19, 2014

Cytometry is a general name for a group of biological methods used to measure various parameters of cells. Parameters which can be measured by cytometry are cell size and morphology, cell cycle phase, DNA content, the existence or absence [more...]

Beauty of Science: Droplet Dancing-I

October 14, 2014

This video covers the spontaneous motion of dyed liquid droplets as they interact with one another. After explaining surface tension’s role, the video reveals several cool examples of this surface tension dance in action. [more...]