Lab on a CD Disk-Like Device
June 20, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
Makerspaces are publically accessed R&D facilities for which users pay a fee, like a health club membership. Inside are machines such as 3-D printers and laser cutters for making various devices including labs-on-a-chip. Here is description of a makerspace product from MIT’s lab: “…a fluid, say a biological sample, is injected through a port in the disk. The disk is then spun in an inexpensive spinner like the six-inch-tall 3D-printed “box”. . ., and centrifugal force “pushes” the protein through the device’s array of channels that contain reagents. The resulting reaction, perhaps a color change or a fluorescing, indicates the presence and concentration of the target biomarker for which the experimenter is testing.” MORE
Image Credit: Nicole Fandel (photo) and Lincoln Laboratory’s Technology Office Innovation Laboratory News