«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded
by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»
Not exact matches
This type of
technology,
microfluidics, has the potential to transform biomedical research
by allowing people to glean meaningful data from minuscule amounts of liquid — in this case, blood.
By combining chip
technology and
microfluidics, Yang has created an inexpensive miniature microscope.
«Single - nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet
by droplet: DroNc - Seq,
technology that merges single - nucleus RNA sequencing with
microfluidics, brings new scale to gene expression studies in complex tissues.»
Creating organ models on a microscale has been greatly facilitated
by microfluidics, a
technology developed in the 1990s that uses micropumps, valves and finely etched channels to manipulate the movement of fluids through a chip.
FluidFM ®
technology reinvents the micropipette: It unites the best features of
microfluidics and force microscopy
by introducing closed microscopic channels into force sensitive probes.
«Our
technology will provide significantly higher forces and faster impact cycles than have previously been possible, and
by building these tools onto
microfluidic devices, we can leverage a host of other on - chip diagnostics and imaging tools and can collect the cells after testing for longer - term studies,» said Valentine.