Sentences with phrase «microfluidics technology»

The device is a unique example of microfluidics technology, sometimes called a lab - on - a-chip, that pushes water around in microscopic tubes and reservoirs made from the same cellophanelike plastic as soft contact lenses.

Holmes may have the most ambitious ideas about how to use microfluidics technology, but she's not the only one working in that field.

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.»

The microfluidic technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic - resistant and antibiotic - susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

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 and delivery.

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

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.

The device, which combines acoustic cell - sorting and microfluidic technologies, could be a boon to both scientific research and medical applications.

A microfluidic technology was developed and used to probe epigenomic differences between prefrontal cortex and cerebellum.

According to a new study, published in Lab on a Chip, enzyme properties in various conditions can now be studied in multiple parallel reactions using droplet microfluidic technology.

He specializes in microfluidic technology — the flow of fluids through channels thinner than a human hair — to understand and control complex chemical and biological systems at critical times and locations.

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.

In parallel studies at a broader level, he will develop microfluidic technology to precisely induce and monitor protein aggregation in living cells and organisms over time.

As Fluidigm IP counsel she supports the mass cytometry and microfluidics technologies.

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.

This type of technology, microfluidics, has the potential to transform biomedical research by allowing people to glean meaningful data from minuscule amounts of liquid — in this case, blood.

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.

Prof. Shen and her unit say that, in the future, nanoplasmonic materials may even be integrated with emerging technologies, such as wireless systems in microfluidic devices, allowing users to take readings remotely and thereby minimizing the risk of contamination.

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

The scientists, who come from Princeton and the Georgia Institute of Technology, developed a new microfluidic device that traps and vertically positions tiny objects faster than before.

By combining chip technology and microfluidics, Yang has created an inexpensive miniature microscope.

Wei Wang and Zhi Ping Wang at the A * STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, De Yun Wang at the National University of Singapore and co-workers have now developed the first microfluidic device that enables the direct observation of cilia and their beating frequency on a polyester membrane [1].

I'd say the trend is going the other way: that the [silicon lithography] technology that has developed around the integrated circuit is now being adopted in several other areas, like microelectromechanical systems, microfluidic devices, chemical labs on a chip, and more.

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

«Single - nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet: DroNc - Seq, technology that merges single - nucleus RNA sequencing with microfluidics, brings new scale to gene expression studies in complex tissues.»

«It's a nice piece of work,» says James Heath, a chemist and microfluidics expert at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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.

The lotus plant's magnificent ability to repel dirt has inspired a range of self - cleaning and antibacterial technologies that may also help control microfluidic «lab - on - a-chip» devices

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.

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.

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.

The discovery, say Zuankai Wang of the City University of Hong Kong and Manoj Chaudhury of Lehigh, has the potential to improve technologies that involve microfluidics, heat transfer, heat exchange, micro-heat exchange, water management and thermal management.

The breakthrough technology uses a simple mechanical method that has been shown to be more effective in trapping cancer cells than the microfluidic approach employed in many existing devices.

«Researchers build liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood: More effective than existing microfluidic devices, the breakthrough technology.»

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

In a paper appearing the week of Sept. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrate a better method based on «acoustofluidics,» a combination of acoustics and microfluidics.

A different method to previous sensors 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.

Sandia's SpinDx device features centrifugal microfluidics, or «lab - on - a-disk» technology, which uses centrifugal forces to manipulate samples and reagents through microfluidic channels implanted on disks that are of the same size as a standard CD or DVD.

Surge technology leverages best - in - class microfluidics, genomics and protein library engineering to revolutionize key bottlenecks of drug discovery and development:

Creating organ models on a microscale has been greatly facilitated by microfluidics, a technology developed in the 1990s that uses micropumps, valves and finely etched channels to manipulate the movement of fluids through a chip.

The new microfluidic platform technology is superior to animal testing, according to Griffith:

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.

California Institute of Technology A microfluidic diagnostic platform to advance regulatory science

These methods include CRISPR technology, statistical analyses, microfluidics, next - generation sequencing, and systematic mapping.

FluidFM ® technology reinvents the micropipette: It unites the best features of microfluidics and force microscopy by introducing closed microscopic channels into force sensitive probes.

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.