Sentences with phrase «microfluidic chip»

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.

The photograph shows the developed microfluidic chip which enables us to sort cells at high speed of 16 microseconds.

Recently, researchers developed a way to grow living cells in microfluidic chips.

Instead of just making molds, Khine ultimately developed a technique to make microfluidics chips directly from Shrinky Dink plastic.

«Adipose analysis on microfluidic chips: Platform works with minute quantities of liquid to grow cells and study their development.»

The technique relies heavily on custom - built microfluidic chips.

The rapid test is based on a new plastic microfluidic chip where bacteria from a urine sample are trapped and methods for analysing their growth at single - cell level.

Described in Nature Communications, the new microfluidic chip produces polarized (or magnetized) xenon gas and then detects even the faintest magnetic signals from the gas.

Although still orders of magnitude slower than conventional computers, bubble logic can operate about 100 times faster than existing microfluidic chips, the researchers say.

«We can design these beautiful microfluidic chips that are small, but everything that controls [the] fluids inside the chip is outside,» he says, preventing microfluidics from being complex yet small.

«There are smaller bioparticles that contain very rich amounts of information that we don't currently have the ability to access in point - of - care [medical testing] devices like microfluidic chips,» says Wardle, who is a co-author on the paper.

Professor Zhang Yong from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering and his team have developed a tiny microfluidic chip that could effectively detect minute amounts of biomolecules without the need for complex lab equipment.

«Scientists develop novel chip for fast and accurate disease detection at low cost: Innovative microfluidic chip uses only standard lab microscope to spot nano - biomolecules without any fluorescent labels.»

Bottom: The five - centimeter microfluidic chip.

«Microfluidic chip predicts risk of preterm birth.»

In this work, Stanford researchers designed, fabricated and integrated EPMs with PDMS microfluidic chips.

A polymeric microfluidic chip for CE / MS determination of small molecules.

They are cheaper and easier to make than traditional microfluidic chips and are entirely customizable.

With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.

To take advantage of that, the researchers built rectangular microfluidic chips, about the size of a quarter, with 40 to 70 parallel channels.

NUS Engineering researchers have developed a low - cost microfluidic chip that can quickly and accurately detect and quantify nano - bioparticles using only a standard laboratory microscope without any fluorescent labels.

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

Mathiowitz and others hope the technique will make possible novel schemes for releasing drug compounds on cue, trapping and releasing proteins for large - scale proteomics studies, and manipulating liquids in microfluidic chips.

Years later she returned to her favorite toy out of necessity when, after joining a brand - new university, she lacked much - needed facilities for making microfluidics chips.

Khine uses Shrinky Dinks — a favorite childhood toy that shrinks when you bake it in the oven — to build microfluidic chips to create affordable tests for diseases in developing countries.

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.

While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with microfluidic chips can do it in hours.

Vortex's system uses a microfluidic chip to generate tiny vortices that trap larger, more deformable cancer cells from a blood plasma sample.

These fully functioning microscopes empower users to visualize cells from microplates, dishes, flasks, slides, microfluidic chips, or custom labware.

The study indicated that the proteins are readily measurable with standard assays, but the team hopes to develop a microfluidic chip that can derive reliable readings within just two hours (well within the duration of many emergency room visits).

Abate's researchers are now working to improve those statistics, and his company, Mission Bio, in South San Francisco, California, is developing commercial versions of the microfluidic chips to give other scientists access to the technique.

The 10x system uses a microfluidic chip to partition a sample of cells into hundreds of thousands of minuscule droplets.

The cells are held within a millimeter - scale table - top microbioreactor, containing a microfluidic chip, which was originally developed by Rajeev Ram, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, and his team, and then commercialized by Kevin Lee — an MIT graduate and co-author — through a spin - off company.

The device continuously monitors conditions within the microfluidic chip, including oxygen levels, temperature, and pH, to ensure the optimum environment for cell growth.

On the other side of the membrane, the glucose is mixed with a fluid and pumped through the microfluidics chip, while enzymes are added to trigger a reaction.

Glucolight spares the premature babies blood samples and enables the blood sugar level to be monitored permanently thanks to the sensor's novel measuring technology, which comprises several parts: A microdialysis measuring head, which was developed at the University Hospital Zurich, with a «smart» membrane developed at Empa; light sources; a pump; and a microfluidics chip with a fluorometer, also developed at the University Hospital Zurich.

In order to overcome this problem, the Freiburg - based research group has developed a microfluidic chip that works with minute volumes of liquid: The platform uses microchannels to feed cell cultures with nutrients during their three - week growth period.

The research group integrated two externally - driven on - chip pumps into the microfluidic chip for high - speed flow control.

A Freiburg - based research group has developed a microfluidic chip where more than one hundred apidose - derived adult stem cell cultures can grow and divide.

Microfluidic chip contains a cross-shaped sorting area and three - branched microfluidic channel.

Research at Nagoya University on cell sorting used a microfluidic chip to prevent sample infection.

The other has built a microfluidic chip that mimics lung function, resulting in a biologically relevant model for testing medicines for lung disorders or conducting toxicity screens for nanoparticles.

«With the microfluidic chip we can also answer, how bacteria communicate with each other, how they respond to stress or whether the relationship of bacterial strains plays a role in adaptation strategies,» says van Nimwegen.

The device consists of a microfluidic chip made from a multilayer silicon polymer sealed on a glass slide; a sperm cell is located in the bottom layer and the egg is positioned in the top, inside an eggcup.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, has developed a microfluidic chip, often called a lab - on - a chip, which performs multiple steps to capture and accurately identify the P1 peptide that predicts preterm birth.

Experimental set - up with the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus in microfluidic chips: each chip comprises eight channels, with a bacterial population growing in each channel.

For example, cell culture or biological analysis, which are conducted in biology laboratories, can be performed on a microfluidic chip.

Up until now, Proportional - Integral - Derivative (PID) controller has normally been used for the manipulation of fluids in microfluidic chips.