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The microfluidic device – also known as the lab-on-a-chip – is a new technology that can be used for a variety of applications, including disease diagnostics, water and blood analysis, particle selection, and so on. Now, researchers in the United States want to bring it into the spotlight.
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29 March 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their collaborators announce the creation of a microfluidic device capable of measuring the blood flow of patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease, a very severe condition of the circulatory system.
People suffering from SCD exhibit a specific mut... |
1 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Working together with scientists at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the development of a new microfluidic device, which can easily sort various types of cells from blood or other liquids. The device has tremendous potential in medi... |
25 February 2012
04:01 GMT |
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The field of consumer electronics is currently heading to a point where each individual smartphone will be outfitted with a sensitive biosensors. The instrument will be able to detect dangerous chemicals and radiations, as well as any diseases in the body based on a small droplet of blood. Researchers at the Massachu... |
19 October 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that the spread of cancer cells through the body is dependent on the direction in which fluids flow in the areas around tumors.What makes cancer so dangerous is the fact that cells can break off tumors, and start dispersing themselves through the body... |
22 July 2011
09:30 GMT |
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A collaboration of US researchers announces the development of a new diagnostics tool against cancer. The approach works by analyzing a small blood samples within a very short time frame. It then alerts doctors as to whether the results are positive or negative. The microfluidic device may provide healthcare experts ... |
28 March 2011
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Experts with the Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering announce the development of a new type of microfluidic device, that could make studying various embryos in more exquisite detail than ever before. The instrument is capable of orienting hundreds of fruit flies embryos, as well as other embryo... |
27 December 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Microfluidic devices are a promising class of equipment that could in the near future be used for a wide variety of applications, from applying diagnostics to analyzing the degree of contamination in a chemical or biological sample. The instruments are very small, the size of a chip, and they all contain small channe... |
2 August 2010
06:40 GMT |
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Scientists at the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, announce the development of a new type of in-vitro microfluidic device (a lab-on-a-chip) that could be used to gauge the development of epilepsy in the near future. The work, which was led by expert Kevin Staley and his team, holds great promise for gaining new ... |
3 February 2010
04:12 GMT |
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According to researchers at the University of Dortmund, in Germany, neurotoxicity analysis could become in the very near future a lot faster and easier to perform, and will also return more accurate results. All of this will be made possible by a new microfluidic device (a lab-on-a-chip) that was developed at the Uni... |
29 January 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The dream of a European research group, once thought to be something pertaining to science-fiction, may actually represent the basis of a new class of optoelectronic devices. According to experts, the innovation proposed by the team could result in massive improvements being brought to a wide array of research fields... |
4 January 2010
08:32 GMT |
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The IBM Corporation has officially entered the lab-on-a-chip market, with the development of its first microfluidic device. Their new instrument could offer a potent diagnostics tool against numerous diseases and virus types, as it makes use of capillary action to draw its conclusions. According to the company, the t... |
24 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Javier Atencia is an investigator that spent a lot of time toying with microfluidic devices, the small, scientific instruments made up of tiny channels that conduct fluids, which can be used for a very wide array of applications, including water diagnostics and decontamination. Like others before him, he came to the ... |
18 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Experts at the Harvard University have recently developed a new class of tiny optical devices, which is able to handle single cells inside a liquid, using nothing more than the power of photons, the elementary particles that make up light. The new class of optical traps is a part of the same technology created in the... |
26 October 2009
04:03 GMT |
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One of the main reasons why mortality rates keep going up, and epidemics keep appearing in poor regions of the world is obviously the lack of sanitation. People consume tainted water and crops, which make them go sick. But the real disaster is that doctors, or other healthcare specialists, who are supposed to take ca... |
25 August 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently managed to create a new class of artificial cells, which behave similarly to nerve cells inside the human brain, and which could in the future be used to create more accurate and efficient interfaces between the cortex of paralyzed patients or... |
11 August 2009
03:38 GMT |
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The chemical heparin, which is now widely used in hospitals in order to prevent blood clots, is one of the most common such substances in the world. Worldwide, the heparin market is estimated at around $6 billion, but the invaluable chemical, used in everything from daily dialysis to brain and open-heart surgeries, i... |
5 August 2009
06:56 GMT |
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A microfluidic device, or a lab-on-a-chip, is a contraption that is able to detect certain chemicals or microorganisms in minute samples of materials that are passed through it. Experimental samples can be made to pass through it via electromechanical valves, which is the preferred method among scientists. However, e... |
23 July 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Most often, when bacteria create nasty infections inside human hosts, they defend themselves against antibiotics and the immune system via a coat of slimy proteins, known as a biofilm. These biofilms are notoriously hard to destroy, and, if they occur on implanted prosthetic devices, they are most often destroyed by ... |
1 July 2009
06:12 GMT |
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University of Florida (UF) researchers have managed to devise a new way of bettering the existing microfluidic device technology, via the use of natural motor proteins, which are small molecules inside our cells that assist in the process of cellular division. Henry Hess, the engineering research team leader, has ann... |
19 January 2009
06:39 GMT |
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