Sentences with phrase «in microfluidic technology»

He specializes in microfluidic technology — the flow of fluids through channels thinner than a human hair — to understand and control complex chemical and biological systems at critical times and locations.

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• NanoCellect Biomedical, a San Diego - based developer of microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell - based assays, raised $ 10 million in series B funding.

Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

Holmes may have the most ambitious ideas about how to use microfluidics technology, but she's not the only one working in that field.

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.

The microfluidic technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic - resistant and antibiotic - susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Prof. Shen and her unit say that, in the future, nanoplasmonic materials may even be integrated with emerging technologies, such as wireless systems in microfluidic devices, allowing users to take readings remotely and thereby minimizing the risk of contamination.

NB is already finding commercial applications in biomedical engineering (BME), including the development of microfluidic chips, or «lab - on - a-chip» technology.

I'd say the trend is going the other way: that the [silicon lithography] technology that has developed around the integrated circuit is now being adopted in several other areas, like microelectromechanical systems, microfluidic devices, chemical labs on a chip, and more.

«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.»

«It's a nice piece of work,» says James Heath, a chemist and microfluidics expert at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

With the technology on track for commercialization, Rogers» team, including Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, the director of translational science at CBIE, is continuing to test the microfluidic devices in scaled studies with an expanding collection of partners.

The device is a unique example of microfluidics technology, sometimes called a lab - on - a-chip, that pushes water around in microscopic tubes and reservoirs made from the same cellophanelike plastic as soft contact lenses.

«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.»

Said Tiffani Lash, Ph.D., director of the NIBIB program in Microfluidic Bioanalytical Systems, «It is exciting to see the continued growth of microfluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor aMicrofluidic Bioanalytical Systems, «It is exciting to see the continued growth of microfluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor amicrofluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor and delivery.

And compared to other techniques used for assisted reproductive technologies, the use of the microfluidic device resulted in significantly lower rates of DNA damage and improved sperm recovery using this method.

There are alternatives to centrifugation such as microfluidic technology, which has been widely studied for various applications in biological and chemical analysis, point - of - care testing and diagnostics, and clinical analysis.

The breakthrough technology uses a simple mechanical method that has been shown to be more effective in trapping cancer cells than the microfluidic approach employed in many existing devices.

«Researchers build liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood: More effective than existing microfluidic devices, the breakthrough technology.»

Their greatest promise might be in microfluidics, or «lab on a chip» technologies, for medical testing or drug research, they say.

In a paper appearing the week of Sept. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrate a better method based on «acoustofluidics,» a combination of acoustics and microfluidicIn a paper appearing the week of Sept. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrate a better method based on «acoustofluidics,» a combination of acoustics and microfluidicin the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrate a better method based on «acoustofluidics,» a combination of acoustics and microfluidics.

According to a new study, published in Lab on a Chip, enzyme properties in various conditions can now be studied in multiple parallel reactions using droplet microfluidic technology.

Surge technology leverages best - in - class microfluidics, genomics and protein library engineering to revolutionize key bottlenecks of drug discovery and development:

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.

«Achieving compositional and structural control for functional materials, in this case for optical components and microfluidics, promises to tremendously open up the application space for 3D - printing technologies,» said Eric Duoss, a materials engineer working on the project.

With his Pioneer Award, Ismagilov will develop droplet - based microfluidic technologies for quantitative studies of protein aggregation diseases and aging at the molecular level and in entire organisms.

In parallel studies at a broader level, he will develop microfluidic technology to precisely induce and monitor protein aggregation in living cells and organisms over timIn parallel studies at a broader level, he will develop microfluidic technology to precisely induce and monitor protein aggregation in living cells and organisms over timin living cells and organisms over time.

He has worked to develop new biological technologies in both academic and commercial environments, focusing on molecular measurement and microfluidic systems.

Organ - on - a-chip technology has seen a vast increase in popularity, as the understanding of utilizing the properties of microfluidics has become more prevalent.