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Novel Microfluidic Device Enables Automatic Double Extraction and Purification of Target Cells

A team of researchers from University of Cincinnati (UC) in Cincinnati, OH have developed a novel microfluidic device, which combines the inertial effect of fluid and microscale vortices generated in microchambers, to achieve simultaneous double sorting of rare target cells and removal of background cells.

23 May 2016

New Method for Rapid Neutrophil Chemotaxis Test Using Microfluidic System

A team of researchers from the University of Manitoba in collaboration with local clinical scientists in Winnipeg, Canada, have developed a new method for rapid neutrophil chemotaxis test directly from a small drop of whole blood using a microfluidic system.

23 May 2016

Researchers Use Cellphone Principles to Track Cells Being Sorted on Microfluidic Chips

The unique identifying number provided for every single phone enables text messages and phone calls to reach individuals wherever they are situated. A similar cell principle has been used by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology to track cells sorted on microfluidic chips.

22 Apr 2016

New Visual Readout Method Enables Cell-Phone Camera to Quantify Single Nucleic-Acid Molecules

Diagnostic health care is often restricted in areas with limited resources, because the procedures required to detect many of the molecular markers that can diagnose diseases are too complex or expensive to be used outside of a central laboratory.

25 Feb 2016

Kiel University Researchers Aim to Detect 100 Biomarkers on the Chip

A whole lab in your hand: researchers at Kiel University have developed a chip that can recognise various proteins in a drop of blood. This could make medical diagnoses much quicker and cheaper in the future.

11 Feb 2016

Reprogrammable Origami Tubes May Provide Foundation for Antennas, Microfluidic Devices

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can reconfigure themselves to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties can change in operation – and even heating and air-conditioning ductwork that adjusts to demand.

28 Jan 2016

Physicists Discover Route to Lab-on-a-Chip Technology for Magnetic Resonance

A novel method of measuring magnetic resonance has been developed for use in lab-on-chip technology. The method uses a microscopic garnet crystal which nanomechanically twists in response to an external magnetic field which can be observed with spectroscopy.

13 Nov 2015

Portable Lab-in-a-Briefcase Could Help Boost Cancer Detection in Developing Countries

Academics at Loughborough University hope to boost early detection rates of cancer in developing countries with their portable lab-in-a-briefcase that can operate even at high temperatures.

2 Nov 2015

UARK Professor to Present on "From Microfluidics to Nanofluidics"

Professor Steve Tung of the Department of Mechanical Engineering will speak on "From Microfluidics to Nanofluidics" at the BAE Research Colloquium Seminar at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in ENGR 219.

29 Oct 2015

Optofluidic Chip Detects Multiple Flu Strains

New chip-based optical sensing technologies developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University enable the rapid detection and identification of multiple biomarkers. In a paper published October 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe a novel method to perform diagnostic assays for multiple strains of flu virus on a small, dedicated chip.

6 Oct 2015