Sentences with phrase «with microfluidic»

«These mechanical vibrations can, in turn, «talk» to liquids within the hollow device and provide optical readout of the mechanical properties,» said Bahl, who is first author of the paper, «Brillouin cavity optomechanics with microfluidic devices,» published this week in Nature Communications.

The postdoc will work under the joint supervision of Prof. Weitz and Dr. Raoul Rosenthal to pursue research projects on directed evolution of antibodies with microfluidic systems.

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

«With the microfluidic chip we can also answer, how bacteria communicate with each other, how they respond to stress or whether the relationship of bacterial strains plays a role in adaptation strategies,» says van Nimwegen.

To apply the ink to the leaves, the researchers created a printing mold with a microfluidic channel.

The principal component of the microbioreactor is a plastic chip with microfluidic circuits (green), optical sensors (red and blue circles) for monitoring oxygen and acidity, and a filter to retain the cells while the therapeutic protein is extracted (white circle).

While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with microfluidic chips can do it in hours.

«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.»

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.

Life span extension «definitely exists with the classical method, and it definitely does not exist with the microfluidics method,» Heinemann says.

We can also couple that with microfluidics to administer neuromodulators, hormones and other molecules and see how site - selective administration of the chemicals modifies neural activity.

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.

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.

It is only with recent advances in microfluidics and labs - on - a-chip that synthesizing and sequencing DNA has become an everyday task,.

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.

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.

On one occasion he had an encouraging meeting with the hiring manager at a local company working on microfluidics; when the interviewer learned that Prasher drove a courtesy van, his interest cooled.

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.

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 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.

To take an up - close look at the gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers made a vacuum - tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon - nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150 - nanometer spacer in between.

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.

Now a team of researchers in China has developed a new microfluidic chip that can quickly and efficiently segregate and capture live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a patient's blood, with potential applications for cancer screenings and treatment assessments.

«We thought it would be incredibly useful if we could mimic jellyfish and functionalise microfluidic devices with long tentacles,» says Karp.

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.

Northwestern University professor John A. Rogers is collaborating with a broad collection of partners including Gatorade, the Seattle Mariners, the U.S. Air Force and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab to bring his wearable microfluidic sweat analytics system into widespread distribution.

Developed by Assistant Professor Gretchen Mahler and Binghamton biomedical engineering alumna Courtney Sakolish PhD» 16, the reusable, multi-layered and microfluidic device incorporates a porous growth substrate, with a physiological fluid flow, and the passive filtration of the capillaries around the end of a kidney, called the glomerulus, where waste is filtered from blood.

Working with the IIS Applied Microfluidic Laboratory of Professor Teruo Fujii, they developed a platform to generate a myriad of micrometer - sized droplets containing random concentrations of reagents and then sandwich a single layer of them between glass slides.

On the other side of the membrane, the glucose is mixed with a fluid and pumped through the microfluidics chip, while enzymes are added to trigger a reaction.

With this method, they created a three - dimensional array of permeable carbon nanotubes within a microfluidic device, through which fluid can flow.

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 partnWith 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 partnwith an expanding collection of partners.

What's more, Wardle says, a three - dimensional forest of carbon nanotubes would provide much more surface area on which target molecules may interact, compared with the two - dimensional surfaces in conventional microfluidics.

«The intimate skin interface created by this wearable, skin - like microfluidic system enables new measurement capabilities not possible with the kinds of absorbent pads and sponges currently used in sweat collection,» said John A. Rogers, who led the multi-institution research team that created the «lab on the skin.»

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.

«Adipose analysis on microfluidic chips: Platform works with minute quantities of liquid to grow cells and study their development.»

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

Such micro-structured surfaces have helped design new surfaces that mimic surfaces found in nature, such as self - cleaning surfaces, reduced - drag surfaces, surfaces capable of transporting liquids in microfluidic systems, variants with anti-icing or heat transfer properties, and even surfaces that facilitate oil - water separation.

In collaboration with colleagues in Belgium, they have developed a more advanced reactor based on highly complex microfluidic structures.

As part of the HeMiBio (Hepatic Microfluidic Bioreactor) project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Potsdam in collaboration with partners at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a microbioreactor in which liver cells can be kept alive and observed for a period of one month.

Using microfluidic design principles, Liu's group engineered vortices in their device to increase the chance that tumor cells will collide with the surface of the flow channel.

«The next step will be to track a few patients over the course of their treatment, taking several blood draws to see if the data captured by the microfluidic device correlates with the data their medical team is collecting through other methods,» says Liu.

«WPI brings an outstanding theoretical tool that allows us to understand how microscale objects, such as sperm, interact with their environment; and we are able to design this know - how into real microfluidic devices, clinically validate what we designed, and experimentally improve it into a real - world application.»

To that end, Ravaux designed a new microfluidics device that allows him to precisely control the membrane location where a sperm cell fuses with an egg.

With the three - year grant, Vanapalli and his collaborators Boyd Butler in the Department of Biological Sciences and Everardo Cobos at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will build microfluidic devices that mimic blood flow to study how tumor cells move inside capillaries, how they squeeze through tight spaces, whether they are subject to fragmentation and how they become stuck.

The microfabricated chip could be mass produced and integrated easily with existing microfluidic systems.

In this work, Stanford researchers designed, fabricated and integrated EPMs with PDMS microfluidic chips.

Experimental set - up with the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus in microfluidic chips: each chip comprises eight channels, with a bacterial population growing in each channel.

But with internal light emitters excited from the bottom surface, the external light never comes in contact with the sample, so lensing effects are negated, as is the need for microfluidics.