POSTS TAGGED AS microfluidics

3D Printed Bioreactor for Organoid Culturing

“Researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed a 3D-printed microfluidic bioreactor that can be used [MORE]

Intestinal Organoids

Next generation organoids
Intestines have the highest cell turnover in the body.  But could lab-grown intestinal organoids mimic that behavior?  The [MORE]

Identifying Viruses with a Microfluidic Device and Raman Spectroscopy

Identifying Viruses with a Microfluidic Device and Raman Spectroscopy
“We [physicists and biochemists at Penn State] demonstrate that multiple emerging virus [MORE]

A BBB Chip

YongTae Kim with Blood brain barrier chip
Bioengineers at Georgia Tech have created a microfluidic chip representing the human blood-brain-barrier.  Accordingly, [MORE]

Smart Materials for Capillary-Like Microvessels

Self assembly of nanoparticles
British bioengineers in London and Nottingham report their development of a new material that self-forms into blood [MORE]

Cartilage on a Chip

Knee-on-a-chip
”Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Milan and the University Hospital of Basel have developed a microfluidic chip containing cartilage, which [MORE]

Electromagnetic Fields Inhibit Cancer Metastases

Breast cancer cells
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers at Ohio State University, report this: “Using a novel microfluidic platform, we found that [MORE]

Osmotic Pill Samples the Microbiome

Capsule assesses microbiome
Increasingly, the role of the microbiome is found to be implicated in many biological processes outside of the [MORE]

A Microfluidics Sensor that Detects Sepsis in 25 Minutes

Microfluidics sensor for sepsis
Interleukin 6 in a blood sample indicates the body’s response to infection.  Knowing this, MIT engineers have [MORE]

Personalized Chemotherapy

 
Microfluidics chemo efficacy testing device
Rutgers University engineers have developed a microfluidics device that not only has a 95% accuracy in [MORE]

High Speed Microfluidics that also Sequences CTCs

HydroSeq CTC Chip
“Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a high speed microfluidic chip that can separate circulating tumor [MORE]

DOE’s Berkeley Lab Creates a 3-D Printed Microfluidics Device

3D printed all liquid lab on a chip
As described: “When two liquids – one containing nanoscale clay particles, another containing [MORE]

A Chip that Models the Human Gut

Intestine chip
Human cells that line the intestines, and the bacteria that live in that region have conflicting needs for oxygen.  [MORE]

Highly Sensitive Microfluidic Device for Capturing CTCs

Cancer cell microfluidic device
Much of the enthusiasm for liquid biopsy in cancer research comes from knowing there are circulating tumor [MORE]