Sentences with phrase «microfluidic design»

Using microfluidic design principles, Liu's group engineered vortices in their device to increase the chance that tumor cells will collide with the surface of the flow channel.

Initially introduced in 2016, Rogers» microfluidic design has come a long way in the past year.

Prakash says that microfluidics designers currently start from scratch with each project, but the bubble technology could offer common building blocks for all microfluidics designs.

New adhesive materials and microfluidic designs maintain water - tight seals to the skin to capture and analyze sweat while preventing surrounding water from entering the device's microscopic channels.

Specific emphasis will be given to various microfluidic designs targeted for use with different cell types.

Not exact matches

«Using a new layer - by - layer fabrication process, we created a microfluidic environment in which TEER - measuring electrodes are integral components of the chip architecture and are positioned as close as possible to the tissues grown in one or both of two parallel running channels,» said Olivier Henry, Ph.D., a Wyss Institute Staff Engineer who was the driving force behind the new Organ Chip designs.

«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.

We have designed a microfluidic device in which we can manipulate, lyse, label, separate, and quantify the protein contents of a single cell using single - molecule fluorescence counting.

The effectiveness of the platelet - like particles has been tested in an animal model and in a microfluidic chamber designed to simulate conditions within the body's circulatory system.

Such micro-structured surfaces have helped design new surfaces that mimic surfaces found in nature, such as self - cleaning surfaces, reduced - drag surfaces, surfaces capable of transporting liquids in microfluidic systems, variants with anti-icing or heat transfer properties, and even surfaces that facilitate oil - water separation.

MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 organs, allowing them to replicate human - organ interactions.

«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.»

To that end, Ravaux designed a new microfluidics device that allows him to precisely control the membrane location where a sperm cell fuses with an egg.

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

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

The microfluidic device designed by his team captures cells based on their distinct internal structure — a mechanical analysis instead of the blood chemistry analysis used in conventional medical diagnostic techniques.

«By getting stuff into the cells, you can understand the disease and hence design therapies,» says Armon Sharei, lead author of a recent article on a new and vector - free microfluidic transfection technique, addressing the transfection challenge.

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