Seeing the Invisible with Microfluidic Devices
The laboratory is the traditional home of the scientific experiment. A biology lab is often like a cell nursery, where the cells are lovingly nurtured in conditions optimal for their [more...]
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Skin-Mounted Microfluidics Analyze Biomarkers in Sweat
From a medical perspective, there are plenty of reasons to be interested in sweat. The quantitative measurement of its components can track certain bodily functions under different conditions and help [more...]
Chip-based Blood Test for Multiple Myeloma Could Make Bone Biopsies a Relic of the Past
A new University of Kansas research effort featured in the current edition of Integrative Biology has resulted in a low-cost, reliable blood test that uses a small plastic chip about the size [more...]
PharmaFluidics Raises 7.3M Euro to expand commercialization of novel micro-chip device
PharmaFluidics NV, a game-changing innovator in the field of analytical chromatography, announced today that it has raised 7.3 million euro. The company will focus on intensifying international growth, supported by [more...]
New Technology Illuminates Microbial Dark Matter
At Stanford University, researchers have used a new microfluidic analysis system to extract 29 novel microbial genomes (the complete set of genetic material) from samples from two Yellowstone National Park [more...]
New Microfluidic Chip Boosts the Sensitivity of Immunoassays
Proteins are one of the most important classes of biomarkers – biological molecules indicative of a disease or health of an individual. The detection of proteins is critical in a [more...]
Micro-ultrasonic Welding Using Thermoplastic-elastomeric Composite Film
Microfluidic Chip (Image Credit: A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology) Microfluidics technology could revolutionize point-of-care medicine by making it possible to fabricate cheap, disposable card-sized plastic [more...]
BYU Researchers Developed New 3D-printing Technology for Lab-on-a-chip Devices
3D-printed microfluidic device (image credit: BYU) Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 [more...]
Microfluidic Chip Achieves High-speed Sorting of Large Cells
This microfluidic chip enables cell sorting in 16 μs; the enlarged view shows a demonstration of on-chip cell sorting of a Euglena gracilis cell (time interval of each frame: 40 [more...]
Instrument Development Enables Planetary Exploration
This laser-interrogated microfluidic chip (10 centimeters in diameter) is one of the new planetary instrument technologies that NASA and other space agencies are developing to search for chemical indicators of [more...]
Rensselaer Team Develops a New and Practical Method to Measure Cell Stiffness
A team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed an innovative approach to measuring cellular mechanical properties (i.e., cell stiffness) that is part of an emerging label-free (i.e, no [more...]
Single Cells Lined Up Like Ducks in a Row
The new microhole chip can be populated with 200,000 single cells, each held in place in separate holes. (Credit: Fraunhofer IBMT) The higher the concentration of tumor cells in the [more...]
IBM Scientists Use Lab-on-a-Chip Nanochannel Technology Designed to “Stretch” DNA to Help Detect Disease
IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a “lab-on-a-chip” technology that can stretch double-stranded DNA molecules with the potential to efficiently reveal biomarkers that may indicate disease. This technology complements the [more...]
DBS System Raises $2.5M for Micro Blood Collection Device
Microfluidic technology enabling easy blood collection by the user (Image Credit: Hemaxis) DBS System announced it closed its Series A at CHF 2.5M which included the direct investment of a Swiss [more...]
Lab-on-a-chip Will Help Give Better Understanding of Liver Function
Microfluidic chip for tissue culture with a special NMR detector developed in Southampton A new collaborative project led by researchers at the University of Southampton will take a novel approach [more...]
Microfluidic Chip Can Detect HIV and MRSA
A digital illustration of the design of the SIMPLE chip A team of biophysicists and bioengineers in the US have developed a $10, self-powered microfluidic chip that can rapidly detect [more...]
Magnet Inserts Help to Close a Modular Chip for Cell Culture
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 [more...]
HICOMP MicroTech
About the Company: Manufacturer and provider of customized microfluidic chips. The materials include polycarbonate (PC), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polystyrene (PS) and cyclic olefin polymers (COP, COC). HICOMP offers [more...]
WPI Researchers Build “Liquid Biopsy” Chip that Detects Metastatic Cancer Cells in a Drop of Blood
A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a small amount of blood drawn from a cancer patient. The [more...]
Microfluidics and Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics
Microfluidic devices offer novel time-saving advantages to researchers using mass spectrometry (MS) for proteomic analysis, and these tools have been becoming more available in MS over the last two decades. Recent [more...]
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