Microfluidics

Microfluidic chip helps replicate the motor neuron connections affected by ALS

December 27, 2018

In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that gradually kills off the motor neurons that control muscles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; [more...]

Single-Cell Sequencing Startup Mission Bio Raises $30 Million

December 27, 2018

Mission Bio, a startup that’s developed a single-cell sequencing platform, announced Thursday that it’s raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The South San Francisco-based company’s machine and software, called the [more...]

1DROP Raises $4.25 Million to Develop Next-Generation Portable Medical Diagnostics

November 30, 2018

1DROP, a life science company developing and commercializing an easy to use, laboratory quality, portable medical diagnostic testing platform, today announced the successful closing of a $4.25 million Series A equity financing [more...]

NSF Grant Supports Center to Develop Microfluidics-based Solutions

November 26, 2018

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics. The center, also known by its [more...]

SELECTBIO 10th Annual Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2018

October 1, 2018

Welcome to the SELECTBIO 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 10thconsecutive year, [more...]

Researchers Develop Wearable Microfluidic Cytometer

August 25, 2018

Wearable cytometry system on flexible PCB with integrated microfluidic polydimethylsiloxane chip, microcontroller, and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) readout to smartphone (not shown). Image credit: Furniturewalla et al, doi: [more...]

Microfluidics 2018: New Technologies and Applications in Biology, Biochemistry and Single-Cell Analysis

July 15, 2018

Microfluidics is a quickly growing, highly interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, engineering, chemistry and biology. Over the past years microfluidic approaches have been used for a variety of applications, including [more...]

Lab-On-A-Chip Technology Could Detect Abnormalities For Pregnant Women

July 13, 2018

A wide range of fetal genetic abnormalities could soon be detected in early pregnancy thanks to a world-first study led by University of South Australia researchers using lab-on-a-chip, non-invasive technology. Biomedical engineers Dr [more...]

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...]

IARPA Awards Draper Multi-Year $7.8 Million Contract to Improve Biodetection Security

July 5, 2018

Draper has been awarded a three-and-a-half-year $7.8 million contract by IARPA (The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, National Intelligence Directorate) as part of the FELIX Program to research and develop tools to enable [more...]

Chip-Scale Broadband Optical System that Can Sense Molecules in the Mid-Infrared

June 10, 2018

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have demonstrated, for the first time, a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared range, that requires no moving parts and can acquire spectra in less than 2 microseconds. The system, [more...]

Interview with Vortex Biosciences’ Microfluidic Technology

June 10, 2018

Personalized medicine is a term we’ve heard for years. The ability to tailor a patient’s treatment type and dosage to obtain the best response is a holy grail for cancer researchers and clinicians. To this end, new technologies are in [more...]

2nd International Conference of Microfluidics, Nanofluidics and Lab on Chip

June 8, 2018

Research on Microfluidics, Nanofluidics and Lab on a chip has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, which is a cutting-edge subject and has great application potential in biochemistry, human health, new energy, advanced materials, [more...]

4rd Workshop on standards for microfluidics July 11& 12 at METAS, Bern, Switzerland

May 23, 2018

After three successful and productive microfluidic standardization workshops, the Microfluidics Association invite individuals, companies and associations active on the field to the 4thMicrofluidics Workshop. This workshop will be held [more...]

Ultrafast Compression Offers New Way to Get Macromolecules into Cells

May 6, 2018

By treating living cells like tiny absorbent sponges, researchers have developed a potentially new way to introduce molecules and therapeutic genes into human cells. The technique first compresses cells in a microfluidic device by [more...]

Leti and Cellmic LLC Join Forces to Accelerate Market Adoption of Lens-free Diagnostics

May 6, 2018

Figure DxCELL is operated by the built-in phone integrated into the reader and uses the camera on the phone to capture and process test data (Image credit: Cellmic ) Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company [more...]

Precision Waveguides with Inkjet Printing

May 6, 2018

Scientists at a Swiss laboratory have demonstrated an inkjet method for precise printing of tiny optical components such as waveguides (Opt. Express, doi:10.1364/OE.26.011934). The new technique leverages capillary forces—instead of [more...]

Raman Spectroscopy Technique Identifies Antibiotic Resistance

April 15, 2018

Knowing that existing methods for pathogen diagnostics are time-consuming and expensive, a team of scientists at the Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technologies (Leibniz-IPHT), the Center for Sepsis Control and Care at the University [more...]

3rd Workshop on Microfluidic Standards

March 6, 2018

During the last years, several players in the field of microfluidics have been discussing the possibility of starting a Microfluidics Association with the firm target of working towards formalizing standardization protocols, processes and [more...]

Acoustic Waves Direct Particles in Microchannels

March 4, 2018

Drug development, artificial tissue design, and the study of intercellular communication are just some of the applications that rely on the precise control of particles or cells in microfluidic devices. By manipulating the fluid motion, [more...]