On-Chip sorting

Holographic Imaging For Rapidly sorting Stem Cells, Cancer Cells

October 11, 2015

MIT scientists created these 3-D images of living cells based on measurements of their index of refraction. Different colors represent different indices of refraction, which correlate with the cells’ density, allowing for cells to be [more...]

Flow Cytometry On-a-Chip

June 10, 2015

IT’S MAGNETIC: Hakho Lee’s CTC counter features eight micro-Hall elements (yellow crosses, above), staggered to maximize detection accuracy. (Photo Credit: D. ISSADORE ET AL.) Originally an immunology tool and a fixture of cell [more...]

Adaptive-Micro-Fluidic Sorting System for Medical Diagnostics

April 5, 2015

Capture and release of specific target biomolecules from an ingoing solution mixture in a microfluidic system occurs by the concerted, dynamic and reversible action of hydrogel volume change and aptamer bind-and-release through changes in [more...]

IMEC On-Chip Single Cell Sorter

August 27, 2014

Imagine a tool the size of a credit card that can analyze single cells with a throughput of more than 2 million cells per second. Moreover, the tool retains each cell of interest for downstream molecular analysis. The first steps towards [more...]

Sorting Cancer Cells with Acoustic Waves

August 27, 2014

Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as they flow through a tiny channel. Their device, about the size of a dime, could [more...]