Microfluidic Device

A 3D-printed Organs-on-a-Chip Device Reveals Clues for Diabetes therapy

January 17, 2016

Figure 1. The device that contains three cell types mimics an endocrine and hormone transportation process. (Image Credit: Dr. Chengpeng Chen, Saint Louis University) A recent publication on the back [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 [more...]

Tracing A Cellular Family Tree In A Microfluidic Device

January 7, 2016

Researchers engineered a microfluidic device that traps first an individual cell and then all of its descendants (Image Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT) By combining sophisticated RNA sequencing technology with a new device [more...]

Low Cost Paper Diagnostics Allows One Minute Blood Typing

December 10, 2015

GLIF enables quick and easy blood typing, without the need for laboratory equipment, expertise or interpretation of results. A collaboration between Monash University and Haemokinesis Pty Ltd has resulted in [more...]

Machining Precision Microfluidic Channels

December 5, 2015

Microfluidics combines expertise in engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, and biotechnology to design systems in which extremely small volumes of fluids are processed through tiny channels milled into a device [more...]

An Optofluidic Chip for Single-cell Sorting Based on Mechanical Properties

November 29, 2015

A monolithic optofluidic chip fabricated by femtosecond laser extracts highly metastatic cells from a heterogeneous population on the basis of optical stretching measurements. The past decade has seen an increasing [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: [more...]

Using Microfluidic Devices to Sort Stem Cells

November 11, 2015

An overview of the process. After the cell sample is pumped through the device, the sorted single cells are collected at the outlet and cultured in a low serum media [more...]

Chinese Researchers Develop Process to Laser 3D Print Microcavity Processing Technologies

November 9, 2015

Whispering-gallery modes are the phenomena of waves traveling along the curve of a concave surface without degrading. The concept was first explained by Lord Rayleigh in 1878 as he explained [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 [more...]

Laser Microfabrication Takes on Diagnostic Consumables: Part 2

November 8, 2015

Figure 1. Sequential and parallel laser micromachining Fundamentals of Laser Micromachining The microfabrication of diagnostic platforms uses many different manufacturing techniques such as photolithography, micro-molding, etching, and [more...]

A Fast Cell Sorter Shrinks to Cell Phone Size

September 22, 2015

Drawing of blood components being separated by sound waves (Image Image: Tony Jun Huang/Penn State) Commercial fluorescence activated cell sorters have been highly successful in the past 40 years at rapidly [more...]

New Microfluidic Device to Determine Bacteria’s Antibiotic Resistance

September 6, 2015

Staphylococcus epidermis is increasingly emerging as a cause of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections. The ability to quickly judge whether a bacteria is resistant to antibiotics could make a major difference in [more...]

Hoope Can Diagnose Sexually Transmitted Diseases with Help of Microfluidics

August 31, 2015

Called Hoope, it has a retractable needle and functions as a home diagnostic tool that distributes blood into four microfluidic channels and to a lab-on-a-chip (Image Credit: Hoope) A smart [more...]

Lab-on-Chip platform technologies for Point-of-Care testing and Cell Culturing

August 23, 2015

Authors Mark Olde Riekerink, Monica Brivio, Elvin Vrouwe and Marko Blom Introduction Lab-on-a-chip technologies are increasingly and successfully being applied in many application fields within chemistry and life science, including [more...]

Capturing Cell Growth in 3D with Microfluidic Device

August 15, 2015

AIM Biotech’s microfluidics device (shown here) has an array of culturing sections, each with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, and two side channels for [more...]

Proto Labs Rapid Prototyping MicroDevices with Stereolithography

August 5, 2015

Final SL parts have support structures built in that are easily removed during post-processing. Supports help prevent part features from distorting during a build (Image Credit: Proto Labs) Stereolithography, or SL, [more...]

Smart Hydrogel Coating Creates Stick-slip Control of Capillary Action

August 2, 2015

Capillary action in coated tube (Close-up image shows water from a droplet moving into a narrow glass tube that has been coated on the inside with a hydrogel material, Image [more...]

Thousand-Fold Volumetric Concentration of Live Cells with a Recirculating Acoustofluidic Device

August 2, 2015

The ability to concentrate cells from dilute samples into smaller volumes is an essential process step for most biological assays. Volumetric concentration is typically achieved via centrifugation, but this technique [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 [more...]