Sentences with phrase «microfluidics techniques»

The project will rely on microfluidics techniques pioneered by Beebe.

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In addition to new understanding of the forces governing microswimmers and their environments, the vortex technique could help prevent biofilms from forming and disrupting microfluidic devices, the authors suggested.

The technique relies heavily on custom - built microfluidic chips.

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.

In a paper published in Nature Methods, postdoctoral fellows Naomi Habib, Inbal Avraham - Davidi, and Anindita Basu; core institute members Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev; and their colleagues reveal DroNc - Seq, a single - cell expression profiling technique that merges sNuc - Seq with microfluidics, allowing massively parallel measurement of gene expression in structurally - complicated tissues.

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

The researchers also used the new technique, called microfluidic dissection, in which large numbers of yeast are grown in a chamber bathed with liquid food containing a constant concentration of nutrients.

Using a new technique they call «in - air microfluidics», University of Twente scientists succeed in printing 3D structures with living cells.

During this webinar, our expert panelists will describe these methods and present breakthrough research data obtained using novel experimental approaches, including immunoassays, microfluidics - based techniques, and high - content screening immunophenotypic assays.

Molecular biology and microfluidics have spawned powerful techniques for isolating and manipulating small amounts of biological materials, making salivary diagnostics possible.

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.

Sperm sorting methodologies based on microfluidic procedures are a valuable option since these techniques eliminate the damaging centrifugation steps.»

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents, or absorbing materials, encased in highly permeable polymer shells.

Brown University engineers have demonstrated a technique for making 3 - D - printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand, which can be useful in making intricately patterned microfluidic devices or in making cell cultures than can change dynamically during experiments.

The technique could be useful could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamically to stimuli and in patterning artificial tissue.

Based on this change, you can use this technique to measure the mass of the biomolecule, and confirm whether it survives exposure to ionized gas during encapsulation within the microfluidic platform.

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.

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.

DEP can be thought of as a low - frequency analogue of optical tweezers, and it has become a popular technique in the microfluidics and lab - on - a-chip fields because it is so simple.

We work across disciplines and use a variety of techniques including microfluidics, standard microscopies (electron, optical, fluorescence, confocal), spectroscopies (fluorescence, UV, CD), scattering techniques (X-ray, light), protein expression and characterization and cell - free gene expression to investigate the utility of coacervate microdroplets as robust reaction compartments and cellular mimics.

«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.

The approaches combine theoretical studies — including statistical physics of non-equilibrium systems — and a variety of experimental techniques such as optical and electron microscopy, as well as microfluidics and micropatterning, optogenetics, or mechanical micromanipulation using optical or magnetic tweezers.

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