Sentences with phrase «of microfluidic»

Comprised of a microfluidic plate and controller, the system delivers programmable, hands - free control and, importantly, is fully compatible with microscope stages for dynamic live cell imaging.

This is a false - color SEM (scanning electron micrograph) of the microfluidic optomechanical resonator.

This may reflect the greater sensitivity of our microfluidic qPCR system over other traditional qPCR systems.

As a visiting Scientist at the University of Washington, he explored the capabilities of microfluidic culture systems to mimic complex vascular structures.

«We even succeeded in inducing much of this differentiation process within a channel of the microfluidic chip, whereby applying cyclical motions that mimic the rhythmic deformations living glomeruli experience due to pressure pulses generated by each heartbeat, we achieve even greater maturation efficiencies.»

The labelling is for acetylated tubulin in red (identifying all axons), and green for the cell permeable dye calcein, which is only applied on the axonal side of the chambers (top half) and allows the identification of those neuronal cell bodies (bottom half) that have extended axons to the other side of the microfluidic device.

Construction of a microfluidic chip, using dried - down reagents, for LATE - PCR amplification and detection of single - stranded DNA.

And a combination of microfluidic flow and other micro-architectural features of the devices enables the cells inside organ chips to live and thrive in three dimensions, not two.

«The development of this microfluidic lung model, as well as other organs - on - chip, holds the promise of improving the physiological relevance of cellular models for more accurate prediction of the effects of toxicants and drugs on humans, and for reducing the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical research,» said Sonia Grego, Ph.D., research scientist at RTI and the project's principal investigator.

Researchers say they are laying the foundation for 3D printing to challenge the dominance of conventional methods — soft lithography and hot embossing — of microfluidic prototyping and development.

The work for the making of the microfluidic devices at the BioMEMS Resource Center was supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the NIH (5P41EB002503 - 12).

I noticed this problem three years ago, when I was at a synthetic biology company where I built some of these microfluidic systems and mechanical machines that interact with them.

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.

Prior studies of microfluidic devices have shown that motility of the sperm sample increased to almost 100 percent and morphology of the isolated sperm also was improved after microfluidic sorting.

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.

Top: Section of microfluidic channel where electric current moves the sample onto a porous material for enrichment before isolation of P1.

Prior attempts to control ions by charging the surfaces of microfluidic channels, however, showed that ions quickly migrated to channel walls and canceled out the voltage, shielding the rest of the liquid from further electric manipulation.

By expanding our previously developed «epidermal» electronics platform to include a complex network of microfluidic channels and storage reservoirs, we now can perform biochemical analysis of this important biofluid,» he said.

The researchers produced three types of microfluidic devices.

The team is also testing the resolution of the microfluidic system with other reagents and materials, bringing researchers one step closer to viewing live biological mechanisms in action at the highest levels of resolution possible.

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.

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 researchers found that by tuning certain dimensions of the microfluidic lattice, they were able to direct billions of microbes to align and swim in the same direction, much the way electrons circulate in the same direction when they create a magnetic field.

Fussenegger's group developed the genetic network; Professor of Biosystems Engineering Andreas Hierlemann and his team tested the acidity sensor with the aid of microfluidic platforms; and Jörg Stelling, a professor of computational systems biology, modelled it in order to estimate the dynamics of the insulin production.

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

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

The basic definition of microfluidics is «fluid flow in a channel that has a dimension of less than one millimeter,» according to Ben Moga, president and cofounder of a company called Tasso Inc..

Sarah E. Du, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, an assistant professor in FAU's Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, and an expert in the emerging field of microfluidics, has developed these tiny customized artificial chambers with embedded micro-electrodes.

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.

«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»

Researchers at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University headed by Johan Elf have used a combination of microfluidics and image analysis of E. coli -LSB-...]

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

Researchers at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University headed by Johan Elf have used a combination of microfluidics and image analysis of E. coli with fluorescent labels on the replication machinery to study how the replication and division cycles are coupled in individual cells.

Organ - on - a-chip technology has seen a vast increase in popularity, as the understanding of utilizing the properties of microfluidics has become more prevalent.

Not exact matches

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.»

While studying microfluidics and 3 - D printing, he found that he could take the testing lab and shrink it to the size of a shoebox and still conduct 30,000 different medical tests.

Moga's company, Tasso, spun out of leading microfluidics expert Dave Beebe's lab at the University of Wisconsin.

The term «microfluidics» appears in nine of the 31 patents that appear when searching the US Patent Office for «Theranos,» and she's the co-inventor on more than 270 global patent applications.

The ease - of - use factor, lack of big needles, and tiny amounts of blood involved mean the company definitely has something in common with Theranos — Tasso uses microfluidics to work with minimal quantities of blood.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Instead, they will be placed in biocompatible microfluidic chambers that provide a nurturing environment mimicking the basic function of living cells.

Just as important, the MFC is readily automated (e.g., Micralyne's Microfluidic Toolkit) and a typical analysis uses nanoliters of reagent.

As bacteria stream through a microfluidic lattice, they synchronize and swim in patterns similar to those of electrons flowing through a magnetic material.

Now scientists at MIT and Cambridge University have identified an unexpected shared pattern in the collective movement of bacteria and electrons: As billions of bacteria stream through a microfluidic lattice, they synchronize and swim in patterns similar to those of electrons orbiting around atomic nuclei in a magnetic material.

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 discovery helps scientists understand the interaction of microswimmers and could help prevent films from forming in microfluidic devices such as labs - on - a-chip.

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.