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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

Researchers Use Micromilling Technique to Fabricate Microfluidic Devices

In this study, Dr. Diana and her team of researchers present an inexpensive method suitable to develop microfluidic devices used in the biomedical field. Even though soft-lithography is the commonly used method to fabricate biomedical microdevices, it is still a time-consuming and expensive method. The growth in developing milling tools that are smaller than 100 µm, has resulted in the use of micromilling machines to produce microfluidic devices that have the ability to execute the cell separation process.

18 Apr 2016

Penn State Researchers Use Microfluidic Device to Manipulate Small Cells and Organisms

Penn State researchers have developed an innovative technique to rotate cells, individual particles, or organisms by utilizing acoustic waves in a microfluidic device. This latest advancement will enable scientists to capture 3D images, simply using a cell phone.

25 Mar 2016

Researchers Develop New Microfluidic Approach to Acquire 3D Atlases of Tissue

Biopsies are a gold standard for definitively diagnosing diseases like cancer. Usually, doctors can only take two-dimensional snapshots of the tissue, and they're limited in their ability to measure the protein levels that might better explain a diagnosis.

2 Mar 2016

New Way to Separate, Organize Cells Suspended in Fluid Samples

Researchers at UCLA have developed a new way to separate and organize cells suspended in fluid samples by their subtle biochemical differences.

26 Feb 2016

New System Could Scale-Up Production of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are very small particles, found in many products, ranging from high-definition television sets and drug delivery formulations, to pollution control on cars.

25 Feb 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

EPFL Researchers Develop Low-Cost, Portable Microfluidic Diagnostic Device

A portable and low-cost diagnostic device has been developed at EPFL. This microfluidic platform, which has been tested with Ebola, requires no bulky equipment. It is thus ideally suited for use in remote regions.

22 Feb 2016

Breakthrough Method Paves Way for Development of Tunable Lens Arrays

Have you ever noticed that when heated a film of oil in a pan doesn’t remain completely flat? Instead, it forms a wavy pattern that resembles the exterior of an orange. These sorts of deformations inspired a group of researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, in Germany, to explore whether they could be used to improve and streamline microfabrication processes.

12 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