Sentences with phrase «microfluidic technologies for»

With his Pioneer Award, Ismagilov will develop droplet - based microfluidic technologies for quantitative studies of protein aggregation diseases and aging at the molecular level and in entire organisms.

That's what a researcher at Florida Atlantic University is aiming to do with his microfluidic technology for reproductive medicine.

Not exact matches

• NanoCellect Biomedical, a San Diego - based developer of microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell - based assays, raised $ 10 million in series B funding.

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.»

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.

The results may seem esoteric, but they could have big implications for everything from oil refining to microfluidic «lab - on - a-chip» technologies.

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.

With the technology on track for commercialization, Rogers» team, including Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, the director of translational science at CBIE, is continuing to test the microfluidic devices in scaled studies with an expanding collection of partners.

DxNow, Inc., a Gaithersburg, Md. - based company that develops advanced microfluidic and imaging technologies, licensed the patent for SPARTAN from WPI and Stanford last September.

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

Said Tiffani Lash, Ph.D., director of the NIBIB program in Microfluidic Bioanalytical Systems, «It is exciting to see the continued growth of microfluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor aMicrofluidic Bioanalytical Systems, «It is exciting to see the continued growth of microfluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor amicrofluidic technologies being used as miniaturized diagnostic platforms, particularly in this case for reducing the incidence of preterm labor and delivery.

And compared to other techniques used for assisted reproductive technologies, the use of the microfluidic device resulted in significantly lower rates of DNA damage and improved sperm recovery using this method.

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.

Their greatest promise might be in microfluidics, or «lab on a chip» technologies, for medical testing or drug research, they say.

Working with colleagues at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, researchers from the Biological Sciences Division helped fuse microfluidics and robotics for a new bioanalysis platform that uses far fewer cells than any other technology.

«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 platform combines microfluidic lab - on - a-chip technology with physiologically relevant spheroids to enable formation and long - term culture of 3D multicellular tumours / organoids for drug screening / profiling and individualized chemosensitivity testing.

«Our technology will provide significantly higher forces and faster impact cycles than have previously been possible, and by building these tools onto microfluidic devices, we can leverage a host of other on - chip diagnostics and imaging tools and can collect the cells after testing for longer - term studies,» said Valentine.