Professor Zhang Yong from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering and his team have developed
a tiny microfluidic chip that could effectively detect minute amounts of biomolecules without the need for complex lab equipment.
Not exact matches
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.
Vortex's system uses a
microfluidic chip to generate
tiny vortices that trap larger, more deformable cancer cells from a blood plasma sample.
Brilliant minds reach back to childhood to help them develop
tiny transistors, study particle separation, make
microfluidics devices, and fight cancer
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 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.
Huang teamed up with other researchers to do
microfluidics experiments, growing bacteria in
tiny chambers and tracking individual cells to learn how photosynthetic bacteria grow in light and dark.
Finding out involves passing a sample of blood through a
microfluidic device, in whose
tiny channels cancer cells can be captured and identified.
«Faster, smaller, more informative: Device can measure the distribution of
tiny particles as they flow through a
microfluidic channel.»
Microfluidic devices are
tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.
Tiny test samples and the inability to experimentally reproduce aggregation events create further problems, but
microfluidics addresses all of these issues.