Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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].

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

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

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Next - generation sequencing involves the application of glass micro-chip based methods and small - volume liquid handling (microfluidics) to sequence DNA more quickly and more cheaply than ever before, indeed 1000s times less costly than the technology used to sequence the first human genome just a few years ago.

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.

«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.