The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria
inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.
Inside the microfluidic device, each cell is assigned one channel - track along which the cell will migrate for several hours.
In this article, his group describes an acoustofluidic rotational manipulation (ARM) method that traps bubbles in a series of small cavities
inside a microfluidic device.
Not exact matches
With the three - year grant, Vanapalli and his collaborators Boyd Butler in the Department of Biological Sciences and Everardo Cobos at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will build
microfluidic devices that mimic blood flow to study how tumor cells move
inside capillaries, how they squeeze through tight spaces, whether they are subject to fragmentation and how they become stuck.
And a combination of
microfluidic flow and other micro-architectural features of the
devices enables the cells
inside organ chips to live and thrive in three dimensions, not two.