Purdue Biosensor

It works like a cream separator, but it relies on laser light and electric fields to separate particles and cells in a microfluidics chip. Purdue University scientists call the process “rapid electrokinetic patterning,” and it involves a laser heating a fluid in a microchannel and then, electrical current generating a vortex that separates substances in blood (including microorganisms) by weight.  MORE

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