Life Science

Single-Cell Sequencing Startup Mission Bio Raises $30 Million

December 27, 2018

Mission Bio, a startup that’s developed a single-cell sequencing platform, announced Thursday that it’s raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The South San Francisco-based company’s machine and software, called the [more...]

MicroTAS 2017

October 22, 2017

The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2017) will be held at the Savannah International Trade and Conference Center in Savannah, Georgia, USA from October 22 – 26, 2017. µTAS [more...]

DCU to Host New €5m Fraunhofer ‘Lab-on-a-chip’ Center

April 3, 2017

DCU is to add a new €5m centre to develop ‘lab-on-a-chip’ technology for the life sciences sector, with the announcement of a new partnership with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. A new lab-on-a-chip centre at Dublin City University (DCU) [more...]

Bio-Rad to Acquire RainDance Technologies

January 22, 2017

Bio-Rad Laboratories has agreed to acquire RainDance Technologies for an undisclosed price, the companies said today (Jan 16th 2017). “The company’s droplet-based solutions will extend our reach into next-generation sequencing [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...]

The 6th International Multidiscipline Conference on Optofluidics (Optofluidics 2016)

July 24, 2016

The aim of OPTOFLUIDICS2016 conference is to provide a forum to promote scientific exchange and to foster closer networks and collaborative ties between leading international optics and micro/nanofluidics researchers across various [more...]

Hemostasis Monitoring Microdevice Detects Deadly Blood Clots

January 10, 2016

The Wyss Institute’s novel hemostasis monitoring microdevice comprises a microfluidic device with hollow channels through which blood is flowed and a proprietary algorithm for analyzing patient-specific data to predict when blood [more...]

Determining What Stays on the Device, and What Goes in the Consumable

November 29, 2015

Image credit: Eric Schneider, Keytech Inc Because most medical devices include both a durable instrument and a consumable, product developers often face a pivotal question during the early design process: What stays on the instrument [more...]

Laser Microfabrication Takes on Diagnostic Consumables: Part 1

November 8, 2015

Figure 1: A diagram of a multi-functional microfluidic chip. (This sketch is not intended to represent a real device; it is or illustration purposes only) Advances in laser technology is leading to a wave of progress in diagnostic [more...]

Human Whole Genome Sequencing

November 2, 2015

There are 6 billion stories in the human genome. If you want to read one of them, you’re going to need a sequencer. But, what to sequence? Researchers interested in the mysteries of the human genome have three options: targeted [more...]

Microfluidic Chip-Capillary Electrophoresis Devices

September 6, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Editor: Dr. Ying Sing Fung Capillary electrophoresis (CE) and microfluidic chip (MC) devices are relatively mature technologies, but this book demonstrates how they can be integrated into a [more...]

Google Wants to Cure Diseases

August 21, 2015

Google’s smart contract lens When Google Co-Founder Larry Page dropped his now-famous blog post revealing that Google was reorganizing itself as Alphabet, one of the most striking things was what he chose to highlight as the kind [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...]

Health Care Microfluidics Market to Hit $4 Billion by 2020

July 28, 2015

Microfluidics can offer portable, cheap, single-use devices that replace centralized laboratory equipment in health care facilities. As the technology advances and medicine grows more personalized, the overall health care market for [more...]

Infertility Diagnosis Comes to Your iPad with Microfluidic Chip

July 28, 2015

Sperm fertility analyzer with iPad (Image from aidmics) It’s certainly no secret that the movement of medtech out of hospitals and doctors’ offices and into the homes of people is a major trend in the industry. Offering cost savings [more...]