Sentences with phrase «microfluidic applications»

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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.»

The term «microfluidics» appears in nine of the 31 patents that appear when searching the US Patent Office for «Theranos,» and she's the co-inventor on more than 270 global patent applications.

If Theranos is the company that has finally come up with Beebe's «killer application» for microfluidics, that may explain its reluctance to show the patented details that make its technology unique, even though that rubs scientists the wrong way.

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

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

Droplet - based microfluidics is a tool used in various applications like cell cultures, chemical synthesis and DNA sequencing.

Now a team of researchers in China has developed a new microfluidic chip that can quickly and efficiently segregate and capture live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a patient's blood, with potential applications for cancer screenings and treatment assessments.

These results can serve as the foundation of future research on the wide range of possible applications involving microfluidic processes such as water purification and self - powered drug delivery systems.

«WPI brings an outstanding theoretical tool that allows us to understand how microscale objects, such as sperm, interact with their environment; and we are able to design this know - how into real microfluidic devices, clinically validate what we designed, and experimentally improve it into a real - world application.»

Shafiee's team, which focuses on developing new technologies using microfluidics, sees many applications for the technology.

The Stanford team is currently developing new applications for EPM actuation in ferro microfluidic systems, as well as optimizing the EPM design.

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 device, which combines acoustic cell - sorting and microfluidic technologies, could be a boon to both scientific research and medical applications.

«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.

The new microfluidic platform shows great promise to provide a cost - effective approach to applications including high - throughput drug screening, analysis and bioassays to assess spheroid function and morphology.

Next - generation sequencing involves the application of glass micro-chip based methods and small - volume liquid handling (microfluidics) to sequence DNA more quickly and more cheaply than ever before, indeed 1000s times less costly than the technology used to sequence the first human genome just a few years ago.

Liquid handling automation, optical fluorescence detection, DNA / RNA / Protein microfluidics and microarray applications.

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