POSTS TAGGED AS microfluidics

Microfluidics Device takes Exomes from Blood

Pulling exosomes from blood to test for cancer
All cells produce and release exosomes, but tumors do more of both.  And, [MORE]

Sweat Patch Diagnostics

Sensor to measure chemical contents in sweat
Sweat is a diagnostic fluid, with varying levels of chloride, glucose, and lactate.  To [MORE]

Promoting Vascularization in Kidney Organoids

Culturing kidney organoids under flow
To make muscle cells from human stem cells, mechanical stress, causing stretching and contraction, has to [MORE]

Rutgers’s Phlebotomy Robot also Does Testing

Rutgers Venipuncture robot
Over the past year, Rutgers University engineers have put together three existing technologies to automate phlebotomy and blood [MORE]

Singapore University’s $1 Test for Multiple Diseases

enVision
Human papilloma virus has one hundred subtypes, five of which can cause cervical cancer.  Consequently, a point-of-care microfluidic device that [MORE]

Tissue Chips in Space

Small tissue chips in space
Microfluidic chips that mimic human tissues are well established in medical and pharmaceutical research, but using [MORE]

Biosensor Detects HER-2 Breast Cancer in 15 Minutes

3D printer makes biosensors to detect breast cancer protein in blood.
University scientists in Connecticut have built a microfluidics device that [MORE]

Democratizing Diagnostics?

Microfluidic diagnostic tools
According to this piece, “[Microfluidic devices] are bound to democratize diagnostics by facilitating financial and physical access to [MORE]

MIT’s Physiome-on-a-Chip

MIT Physiome-on-a-Chip
The human body has nearly 80 organs (depending on their definitions).  Knowing how a drug interacts with these different [MORE]

A Wearable Cytometer

Wearable cytometer
Most of the wearable biosensors on the market today monitor heartbeat, respiration and movement.  Others are working on blood [MORE]

Lab-on-a-Fiber Technology

Lab On Fiber Analyst Royal Society of Chemistry
First it was lab-on-a-chip, and then lab-on-skin. Now Scottish researchers report on an [MORE]

A Lung-Liver-Gut-Endometrium-Brain-Heart-Pancreas-Kidney-Skin-Skeletal Muscle “Body-on-a-Chip” Device

MIT Organs Chip
Aimed at drug testing, MIT engineers have created a physiome chip, aka “body-on-a-chip,” that has one to two [MORE]

“Programmable Droplets”

Programmable Droplets
The most common way researchers move biological fluids for analysis or combination is a microfluidic device. But according to [MORE]

Microfluidic Purification of a Rare Antibody

Human B Lymphocyte
This year’s flu season showed a weakness in preparation: vaccine manufacturers used an antibody for a narrow subset [MORE]