Microfluidic Device

Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2018

October 1, 2018

Welcome to the Select Biosciences 10th Annual Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2018. Bringing together researchers and industry participants from both academia and industry, this established congress now in its [more...]

Organ-on-a-chip: a New Model of Microfluidic Chip

April 22, 2018

Cells in a microwell and their growth after two days of perfusion An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device with continuously perfused chambers in which cells are cultured to obtain functional units that mimic organ functions. The [more...]

Microfluidics Probe ‘Cholesterol’ of the Oil Industry

December 1, 2017

It sounds cliché, but things do get worse before they get better when oil and gas lines are being cleared of contaminants, according to Rice University researchers. Until now, nobody knew exactly why. Asphaltene is a complex of [more...]

Optofluidics 2017

July 25, 2017

Optofluidics 2017 continues a series of Conferences that provide a forum to promote scientific exchange and foster closer networks and collaborative ties between leading international optics and micro/nanofluidics researchers across [more...]

Researchers in Lincoln Laboratory Exploring the Feasibility of Fabricating Microfluidic Devices in Makerspaces

April 26, 2017

Microfluidic devices for performing various assays were created with the tools in Lincoln Laboratory's Technology Office Innovation Laboratory. (Photo credit: Nicole Fandel) For more than a decade, scientists have publicized the potential [more...]

Researchers Make Flexible Glass for Tiny Medical Devices

April 4, 2017

A graduate student at BYU holds up a disc of microchips that have flexible glass membranes. (Image Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo) Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of [more...]

Catalytic Conveyer Belt-A New Method for Controlled Delivery of Particles via Fluid Flow

March 19, 2017

Particles transported along a channel by chemically-driven fluid flow. The flow is generated by reagent entering at one end of the channel (A) and reacting at the enzyme covered surface. The cargo is deposited at position B, which can be [more...]

Veteran Medtech Player Seeks To Commercialize U Of M Blood ‘Washing’ Device

December 28, 2016

From Admin: Veteran Minnesota medtech consultant Brian Bischoff received a federal grant to commercialize a University of Minnesota-developed device aimed at improving how donated blood is frozen and preserved, which in turn could unlock [more...]

Rainbow Seed Fund Invests in AgPlus Diagnostics

October 2, 2016

Rainbow Seed Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies developed at the UK’s largest publicly funded research facilities and campuses, today announces its investment into AgPlus Diagnostics, a technology [more...]

Can Microfluidic Device Help to Make Instant Wine?

September 5, 2016

Phillippe Renaud, left, and Daniel Attinger make a tiny toast with wine from Attinger’s microfluidics fermenter, front and center. How does it taste? Meh, Renaud says. (Photo credit: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) For [more...]

Replicating the Connection Between Muscles and Nerves

August 7, 2016

The researchers fabricated a microfluidic device with two important features: a three-dimensional environment, and compartments that separate muscles from nerves to mimic their natural separation in the human body. They suspended muscle [more...]

Circulating Cells In Cancer Patients’ Blood Not Always Cancerous

August 1, 2016

Tumor-derived endothelial clusters (Image credit:Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) For decades, clusters of cells commonly found in the blood of cancer patients have always been regarded as cancerous cells that have broken [more...]

Penn Engineers Develop $2 Portable Zika Test

July 14, 2016

Microfluidic device for zika test (Image credit: University of Pennsylvania) University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a rapid, low-cost genetic test for the Zika virus. The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda can, does [more...]

Air Bubbles and Microfluidics-Elveflow Tutorial

July 3, 2016

Air bubbles are among the most recurring issues in microfluidics. Because of the micrometric dimensions of the tubes and channels, air bubbles can be very difficult to remove and be very detrimental for your experiment. This review will [more...]

Efficient Cleaning of A Microfluidic Chip

March 28, 2016

David Fernandez Rivas Mesoscale Chemical Systems group, University of Twente, The Netherlands Why is this useful? Microfluidic chips and lab-on-a-chip devices are used at small scales where contamination has a significant impact on [more...]

Nanoprint Lithography Solution for Microfluidics and Photonics Applications

March 25, 2016

EVG Nanoimprint lithography system (Image credit: EVG) EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, and Joanneum Research (JR), a leading [more...]

A Portable Device For Rapid And Highly Sensitive Diagnostics

March 3, 2016

A portable and low-cost diagnostic device has been developed at EPFL. This microfluidic tool, which has been tested with Ebola, requires no bulky equipment. It is thus ideally suited for use in remote regions. When remote regions with [more...]

Alternative Lab-on-a-Chip Material

February 24, 2016

A close-up image of micro-scale pillars that were formed — or, photostructured — in the OSTE polymer using UV light. (Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a new [more...]

Microfluidic Device May Speed Up DNA Insertion in Bacteria

February 21, 2016

An artist’s rendition of DNA entering bacteria (Image Credit: Nicolle Fuller, MIT news) Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To do this, scientists often perform a process called [more...]

Device Could Decrease Time Between Cancer Detection and Treatments

January 17, 2016

The acoustophoretic microfluidics device the team built allows it to utilize the pressure generated in the small device to manipulate small fluid samples such as blood drawn during an examination (Image Credit: Texas A&M University) [more...]