microfluidic chip

Seeing the Invisible with Microfluidic Devices

July 5, 2018

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 growth. A chemistry lab might be filled with glassware, [more...]

Skin-Mounted Microfluidics Analyze Biomarkers in Sweat

April 28, 2018

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 in the diagnosis of diseases. Chloride [more...]

Chip-based Blood Test for Multiple Myeloma Could Make Bone Biopsies a Relic of the Past

April 28, 2018

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 of a credit card that can deliver the same [more...]

PharmaFluidics Raises 7.3M Euro to expand commercialization of novel micro-chip device

January 21, 2018

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 initial, promising [more...]

New Technology Illuminates Microbial Dark Matter

October 29, 2017

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 hot springs. They extracted the [more...]

New Microfluidic Chip Boosts the Sensitivity of Immunoassays

October 29, 2017

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 variety of tests; from the diagnosis of malaria, through [more...]

Micro-ultrasonic Welding Using Thermoplastic-elastomeric Composite Film

September 4, 2017

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

August 19, 2017

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 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that [more...]

Microfluidic Chip Achieves High-speed Sorting of Large Cells

August 12, 2017

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 μs). (Image copyright: Shinya Sakuma, Yusuke Kasai, Takeshi [more...]

Instrument Development Enables Planetary Exploration

June 24, 2017

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 life on other worlds. In this [more...]

Rensselaer Team Develops a New and Practical Method to Measure Cell Stiffness

June 14, 2017

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 histology dyes or [more...]

Single Cells Lined Up Like Ducks in a Row

June 7, 2017

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 bloodstream, the greater the risk of metastasis. The [more...]

IBM Scientists Use Lab-on-a-Chip Nanochannel Technology Designed to “Stretch” DNA to Help Detect Disease

May 29, 2017

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 IBM [more...]

DBS System Raises $2.5M for Micro Blood Collection Device

May 13, 2017

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 pension fund. DBS System produces blood [more...]

Lab-on-a-chip Will Help Give Better Understanding of Liver Function

April 17, 2017

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 towards a systemic understanding of liver [more...]

Microfluidic Chip Can Detect HIV and MRSA

April 9, 2017

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 disease-related RNA or DNA in blood samples. The chip [more...]

Magnet Inserts Help to Close a Modular Chip for Cell Culture

March 21, 2017

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 a modular [more...]

HICOMP MicroTech

February 26, 2017

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

December 18, 2016

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 breakthrough technology uses a simple mechanical [more...]

Microfluidics and Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

November 20, 2016

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 papers by Redman et al. [more...]