• NanoCellect Biomedical, a San Diego - based developer of
microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell - based assays, raised $ 10 million in series B funding.
Not exact matches
Research at Nagoya University on
cell sorting used a
microfluidic chip to prevent sample infection.
Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can
sort out disease biomarkers,
cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.
The device, which combines acoustic
cell -
sorting and
microfluidic technologies, could be a boon to both scientific research and medical applications.
Unlike atomic force microscopy,
microfluidics is a high - throughput screening technique, but additional work is required to assess the efficiency of this type of biophysical - based
sorting for stem
cell enrichment.
«A
microfluidic device that
sorts cells based on their mechanical properties could offer cost and labor advantages over current methods and may provide sufficient enrichment to serve as an alternative or additional approach to antibody - based techniques,» Sulchek says.
On the bioengineering side, Westervelt's group has developed hybrid Integrated Circuit /
Microfluidic chips - programmable microfluidic systems that can trap, move, sort, and assemble biological cells and small particle
Microfluidic chips - programmable
microfluidic systems that can trap, move, sort, and assemble biological cells and small particle
microfluidic systems that can trap, move,
sort, and assemble biological
cells and small particles in fluids.
Researchers at SciLifeLab have shown that a high - throughput method using
microfluidic droplet
sorting of mutated yeast
cells can be used to improve the production of industrial enzymes.