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Researchers Develop Microfluidic Devices that Capture and Analyze Cancer Cells

One of the grand goals in nanotechnology is to develop a single microfluidic device that integrates all of the components needed to perform polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based nucleic acid analyses. Experts predict tha...

16 Jan 2009

Patent Enable Companies and Researchers to Develop and Manufacture Smaller-Sized Nanoparticles

Microfluidics has filed for a patent on its Microfluidics Reaction Technology (MRT), which will enable companies and research organizations to develop and manufacture smaller-sized nanoparticles than previously possible ...

15 Jan 2009

Handheld Device Recognizes Wide Variety of Environmental or Medical Compounds

A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates a mixture of biologically tagged nanowires onto integrated circuit chips, according to Penn State researchers.

15 Jan 2009

Microscopic, Chemically Triggered Robotic "Hands" that can Pick Up and Move Small Objects

In a finding straight out of science fiction, chemical and biomolecular engineers in Maryland are describing development of microscopic, chemically triggered robotic "hands" that can pick up and move small objects. They could be used in laboratory-on-a-chip applications, reconfigurable microfluidic systems, and micromanufacturing, the researchers say

13 Jan 2009

RainDance Technologies to Present "Biology in Pico-Liter Droplets"

Darren R. Link, Ph.D., of RainDance Technologies, Inc., will present "Biology in Pico-Liter Droplets," a discussion of the commercialization of the use of picoliter droplets in microfluidic channels for applica...

From RainDance Technologies, Inc. 12 Jan 2009

Seminar Discusses Recent Developments in Nanowire Sensors

Nanoscale electronic devices have the potential to achieve exquisite sensitivity as sensors for the direct detection of molecular interactions, thereby decreasing diagnostics costs and enabling previously impossible sens...

12 Jan 2009

Grant to Fund Development of New FACS Based on Microdroplet Technology

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that it has been selected to share in the first-ever round of cooperative researc...

5 Jan 2009

CIRM Awards Grant for Cell Culture Chip (C2C) to Accelerate Stem Cell Research

California’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, has awarded Fluidigm Corporation and Stemgent, Inc. a grant to develop a cell culture chip (C2C) and support system that will hel...

17 Dec 2008

Microbial Ecosystem Sheds New Light on Climate Change

MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work, reported in the January print i...

15 Dec 2008

Alberta Center for Advanced MNT Products Installs Top Maskless Laser Patterning System for Fabrication of Microfluidics and Biosensors

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a G101 table top maskless laser patterning system to the Alberta Center for Advanced MNT Products, Canada. System will be used for prototyping and fabrication of various devices including biosensors and microfluidics.

14 Dec 2008