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Chip-Based Model Produces Low Cost, Tissue-Engineered Pseudo-Organ

Scientists have developed a new technique that produces a user friendly, low cost, tissue-engineered pseudo-organ. The chip-based model produces a faithful mimic of the in vivo liver inside a scalable fluid-handling device, demonstrating proof of principle for toxicology tests and opening up potential use in drug testing and personalised medicine.

11 Sep 2015

Contact-Free Microfluidic System Uses Acoustic Tweezers to Isolate Circulating Tumor Cells

The capture and analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of cancer patients is a valuable tool for treatment decisions and therapy monitoring. Until recently, it was a huge challenge to capture these rare cells in a blood sample.

24 Aug 2015

Innovative Technology for Microdroplet Creation for Automatic Analytical Devices

Scientists from Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) have devised a unique technology for creating microdroplets suitable for portable automatic analytical devices in various fields from internal security to environmental monitoring and space research. The Estonian Patent Office has registered the invention as a utility model.

20 Aug 2015

AIM Biotech's Microfluidics Device Enables Co-Culture of Multiple Cell Types in 3-D Hydrogel Environment

Replicating how cancer and other cells interact in the body is somewhat difficult in the lab. Biologists generally culture one cell type in plastic plates, which doesn’t represent the dynamic cell interactions within living organisms.

17 Aug 2015

Integrated Microfluidic Chip Design with Embedded 3D Hydrogel Scaffold Can Help Capture Circulating Tumor Cells

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Florida State University, and University of Massachusetts has developed a new design of microchip that can retrieve microfluidically attached cancer cells for serial in vitro or in vivo analysis by via integrating a 3D hydrogel scaffold into a fluidic device. The researchers describe their approach in the forthcoming issue of the journal TECHNOLOGY.

5 Aug 2015

Researchers Use Colloidal Mix to Understand Fluid Behavior in Micron-Sized Channels

From targeted drug delivery to the self-assembly of nano robots, new research by Northumbria University, Newcastle, is using super-sized atoms to reveal the behaviour of liquids in microscopic channels.

3 Jul 2015

Implantable Microfluid System Can Efficiently, Durably Stabilize Intraocular Pressure

Elevated or diminished eye pressure impairs our ability to see, and in the worst cases, can even lead to blindness. Until now, there has been no effective long-term treatment.

2 Jul 2015

Study on Unique Gas-Flow Properties of Molecular Tubes Published in ACS Nano

Chemistry professor Linda Shimizu oversees a series of crowd-pleasing chemistry demonstrations in middle and high schools throughout central South Carolina every year. They are spirited affairs, and her research in the laboratory is just as dynamic ?but with a sense of order that really keeps atoms in line.

25 Jun 2015

SUSS MicroTec, Georgia Tech Enter Collaboration for Nanotechnology, Bio-Medical and Semiconductor 3D Packaging Research

SUSS MicroTec, a global supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced today a collaboration for nanotechnology, bio-medical and semiconductor 3D packaging research.

24 Jun 2015

Global Microfluidics Market Expected to Grow at 19.3% CAGR During 2015-2020

According to a new market research report "Microfluidics Market by Material (Polymer, Glass, Silicon) Application (Pharmaceutical (Genomics, Proteomics, Capillary Electrophoresis) Diagnostic (POC, Clinical, Environmental, Industrial) Drug Delivery (Inhaler, Micropump)) - Global Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Microfluidics Market is expected to grow from $3.1 Billion in 2015 to $7.5 Billion by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.3% from 2015 to 2020.

22 Jun 2015

Nanofluidics News

Chip-Based Model Produces Low Cost, Tissue-Engineered Pseudo-Organ

Contact-Free Microfluidic System Uses Acoustic Tweezers to Isolate Circulating Tumor Cells

Innovative Technology for Microdroplet Creation for Automatic Analytical Devices

AIM Biotech's Microfluidics Device Enables Co-Culture of Multiple Cell Types in 3-D Hydrogel Environment

Integrated Microfluidic Chip Design with Embedded 3D Hydrogel Scaffold Can Help Capture Circulating Tumor Cells

Researchers Use Colloidal Mix to Understand Fluid Behavior in Micron-Sized Channels

Implantable Microfluid System Can Efficiently, Durably Stabilize Intraocular Pressure

Study on Unique Gas-Flow Properties of Molecular Tubes Published in ACS Nano

SUSS MicroTec, Georgia Tech Enter Collaboration for Nanotechnology, Bio-Medical and Semiconductor 3D Packaging Research

Global Microfluidics Market Expected to Grow at 19.3% CAGR During 2015-2020

Breakthrough Nanoparticle Targets Breast Cancer and Brain Tumors

Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine: Groundbreaking Biomaterial for Tissue Growth

Controlling Magnetic States in 2D Materials

Improving Gene Therapy for Lung Disease

High-Throughput Apparatus Speeds Up Eco-Friendly Nanomaterial Synthesis

Applying AI-Driven Solutions to Semiconductor Digital Design

Redux AFM: Expanding Access to Automated Nanoscale Imaging

Project Pursues Ultra Low-Cost, Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

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