Friday, March 2nd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_27153" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="The microfluidic device isolates target cells (in pink) from the rest of the flow by getting them to stick weakly to the device's ridges, then roll through trenches, and into a collection chamber. Image: Nicolle Rager Fuller"][/caption]
A microfluidic device developed by researchers at Massachusetts ...
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Research at Cambridge University could lead to improvements in the manufacturing of microcapsules for drug delivery, according to an article from the Engineer. The researchers created microcapsules that are more susceptible to stimuli, and as a result, they had more control over the release of the drugs. With conventional methods, ...
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The Dolomite Centre Ltd, designer and manufacturer of microfluidic devices, has signed a collaboration agreement with Sphere Fluidics, whose picodroplet technology performs thousands of simultaneous analyses on single cells and small populations of molecules. Sphere Fluidics is commercialising new lab-on-chip and picodroplet technologies developed at Cambridge University by company founders ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
As a member of the medtech and possibly engineering communities, you are familiar with microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology. But what about the public at large: how do we explain the way that microfluidics works and how it affects their lives? Even more importantly, how do we incite passion for the ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
From the Wire: The field of microfluidics has been intensely investigated for nearly two decades, being traditionally explored within fixed geometries of continuous polymer or glass microchannels. None of the prior approaches was capable of creating any desired channel geometry or being able to keep that channel configuration intact without ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_10579" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="The sample collector section of a new microfluidic lab on a chip consists of a network of microscopic channels. Capillary action causes serum from a drop of blood to be drawn into the diagnostic device. Image courtesy of IBM Zürich Research Laboratory"][/caption]
From the Wire: Researchers at ...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
A new addition to the Mitos family of pumps, a pressure pump dubbed the Mitos P-pump was shown for the first time in Europe at Compamed, which runs alongside Medica at Messe Düsseldorf this week. Developed by the Dolomite Centre Ltd (Royston, UK), which specialises in microfluidic design and manufacture, ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_7914" align="alignright" width="375" caption="Focusing surface vibrations onto a water droplet causes it erupt into a narrow jet. The technique could be used in biomedical research or drug-delivery applications."][/caption]
Fluid jets are normally formed by forcing a liquid through a small opening—as is exemplified in the case of a syringe. ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Microfluidic devices are typically intricate, containing layers of glass or polymers, tiny channels, pumps, and valves. Such devices help doctors diagnose diseases such as HIV, diabetes, dengue fever, and hepatitis. But their complexity comes at a cost, often making them prohibitively expensive for clinics in developing countries.
To address this problem, ...
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