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A Health “Snapshot” in Sweat

Portable System to Analyze Sweat
Swiss engineers have built a tiny (one centimeter squared) biomarker analyzer that uses sweat as its [MORE]

Wyss’ Organ-on-a-Chip for Modeling Influenza

Organ-on-a-Chip
It has been 99 years since the great influenza pandemic that killed many more people than had died in World [MORE]

“Lab in a Needle”

Lab in a Needle
Microfluidics devices enable liquid biopsies, but this piece goes one step further: it miniaturizes two lab chips—one [MORE]

Novel Microparticles with Segmented Surfaces for Different Applications

Complex Particles with Chemically Different Segments
A more effective anticancer chemotherapy would, at once, specifically target a cancer cell, penetrate its [MORE]

It Looks Like a Speck of Dust; it is a Catheter Chip for Internal Imaging

Chip to Visualize Heart in 3-D for Surgery
First, think of an ultrasound device with 56 transmitters and 48 receivers, then [MORE]