Device Delivers Drugs to Brain Via Remote Control
A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs. [more...]
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DEPArray™ Technology to Sort and Isolate Rare Cells with Microfluidics
DEPArray™ technology is based on the ability of a non-uniform electric field to exert forces on neutral, polarizable particles, such as cells, that are suspended in a liquid. This electrokinetic [more...]
Miniature Pump Regulates Internal Ocular Pressure
Cross-section of the eye with the implant. (Image Credit: Fraunhofer EMFT) Elevated or diminished eye pressure impairs our ability to see, and in the worst cases, can even lead to [more...]
Microfluidic Chip Isolates Rare Tumor Cells
Love holds a microfluidic device, developed in Hidde Ploegh’s lab, that resembles a tiny ice cube tray, with individual compartments for each cell. Love and Ploegh designed the device, which [more...]
Centrifugal Microfluidic Platforms: Advanced Unit Operations and Applications
Centrifugal microfluidics has evolved into a mature technology. Several major diagnostic companies either have products on the market or are currently evaluating centrifugal microfluidics for product development. The fields of [more...]
Microchips Biotech Commercializes Implantable Drug-delivery Device
A version of Microchip Biotech’s implantable, wirelessly controlled microchip. When an electrical current is delivered to one of the chip’s tiny reservoirs, a single dose of therapeutics is released into [more...]
Microfluidics’ Watershed Moment
The HµRELflow™ cell-based assay system has three microfluidic devices on a biochip. Each device incorporates two cell culture compartments interconnected by microscale channels. Integrated micropumps recirculate culture media within the [more...]
Northeastern Professor Receives $1.4 Million NIH Grant to Design Microfluidic Devices for Vaccine Development
Northeastern professor Shashi Murthy positions a microfluidic device on a microscope stage to prepare for an experiment (Image Credit: Northeastern University) Northeastern professor of chemical engineering [more...]
Special Issue of Advances in Microfluidic Devices for Cell Handling and Analysis on the Open Access Journal- Micromachines
Dear Colleagues, Microfluidics is a technology characterized by the engineered manipulation of fluids at the submillimeter scale, which dramatically improved diagnostics and biology research. Certain properties of microfluidic [more...]
Microfluidic Approach to Personalised Cancer Treatment
As part of the united effort to make healthcare technology smaller, better and cheaper, scientists in the US have developed an innovative microfluidic assay that can accurately predict how patients [more...]
New Microfluidic Device Could Be a Safer Alternative to Lung Ventilators
Dark red blood flows into the device, where it exchanges carbon dioxide for oxygen and emerges on the other side much brighter. A new technology that re-creates important characteristics of [more...]
Can Small Go Big? Microfluidics Aid Quest for Artificial Photosynthesis
In this microfluidic water electrolysis device, the channels in which oxygen and hydrogen are generated by splitting water are separated by a chemically inert wall (red). The conduction of protons [more...]
Digital Microfluidics Enables Analysis of Multiple Steroid Hormones for Breast Cancer
Steroid hormone testing in the clinic relies on immunoassays or liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS) analysis of blood or urine samples, but there are cases where it is necessary [more...]
Can We Identify Every Kind of Cell in the Body?
A microfluidic device (at center) can carry out experiments on individual cells (Image Credit: MIT Tech Review) How many types of cells are there in the human body? Textbooks say [more...]
What Makes Cancer Cells Spread? New Microfluidic Device Offers Clues
Individual cancer cells were isolated with a new device. The cell on the left is less likely to metastasize. Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor and [more...]
New Platforms Genetically Barcode Tens of Thousands of Cells At a Time
Screenshot of microfluidic devices for genetically barcoding ( from: Harvard Medical School) Imagine someone hands you a smoothie and asks you to identify everything that went into it. You might [more...]
Micromilling: A Top Option For Making Microfluidic Devices
A mold insert from MiniFAB being milled. With its milling and metrology capabilities, the company can control the depth, profile and texture of the microfluidic device. (Image Credit: MiniFAB) When making [more...]
Microfluidic Chip Captures Clusters of Circulating Tumor Cells-NIH Study
Magnification of circulating tumor cell cluster captured by Cluster-Chip. (Image Credit: Sarioglu et al., Nature Methods) Researchers have developed a microfluidic chip that can capture rare clusters of circulating tumor cells, [more...]
New Sampling Device Promises To Make Blood Tests Needle-free
The HemoLink device can draw enough blood for certain routine tests without the need for needles (Photo: David Tenenbaum) Though the pain they cause is minor and fleeting, a lot [more...]
Device Can Measure The Distribution of Tiny Particles
A suspended microchannel resonator (SMR) measures particles’ masses as they flow through a narrow channel. The original mass sensor consists of a fluid-filled microchannel etched in a tiny silicon cantilever [more...]
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