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Optical Microrheology Video Method Extracts Mechanical Properties of Liquid Gel Interfaces

Conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these liquid to solid interfaces in their natural environments. Now, researchers have demonstrated a video method that eventually may be able to make measurements on these types of biological and industrial systems.

24 Jan 2008

DropArray Miniaturized Bioassay to Lead to Cheaper Drugs

A standard laboratory tool for measuring pharmacological activity of biological substances and performing other related tests may soon be replaced by a new miniaturized bioassay that will be faster, cheaper and more effi...

20 Dec 2007

Microchip Based Device can Analyze Cancer Cells in a Blood Sample

A team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Biomicroelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center and the MGH Cancer Center has developed a microchip-based device that can isolate, enumera...

20 Dec 2007

Using Light to Sculpt 3D Microparticles for Medical Diagnosis and Tissue Engineering

MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. For example, they could be designed to act as probes t...

4 Dec 2007

RainDance Technologies Selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

RainDance Technologies has been selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Technology Pioneers were nominated by the world’s leading technology experts and final selection from 273 nominees was made by ...

From RainDance Technologies, Inc. 30 Nov 2007

RainDance Technologies, Developer of NanoReactor Droplet Based Microfluidic Technology Appoints New President and CEO

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a developer of NanoReactor droplet-based microfluidic technology, today announced the appointment of Christopher McNary as President and Chief Executive Officer. McNary will join Jonat...

29 Nov 2007

New Method for Producing Defined Microparticles with 3-D Nanopatterns

Many scientists are working feverishly to develop reliable but simple methods for the production of tiny particles with defined size and shape that are covered with special regular patterns in two or three dimensions and...

16 Nov 2007

Microfluidic Device Shows How Bacteria Self Arrange in Protective Biofilms

Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming anti...

14 Nov 2007

Micro Microwaves Bring Pinpoint Heating to Miniature Laboratory Work

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world’s smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-s...

12 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network to be Managed by Cenamps

Cenamps, a national centre for emerging technologies, has secured a major contract to manage the newly created ‘Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network’ (KTN), funded by the Government’s Technology St...

9 Nov 2007