News tagged with digital microfluidic device
Of microchemistry and molecules: Electronic microfluidic device synthesizes biocompatible probes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microfluidic chemistry is fast gaining popularity – and for good reason: In addition to allowing highly-precise reaction control, micro-reactions often exhibit higher yield and proceed ...
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IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)
Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices
Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Through a Sensor, Holographically
(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...
Regulating Earth's climate with micro-organisms
Scientists have sought to learn more about how the Earth's oceans absorb carbon dioxide and generally exchange gases with the atmosphere so they can better understand the corresponding effects on climate. ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Microfluidics-imaging platform detects cancer growth signaling in minute biopsy samples
Inappropriate growth and survival signaling, which leads to the aberrant growth of cancer cells, is a driving force behind tumors. Much of current cancer research focuses on the kinase enzymes whose mutations are responsible ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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An engineered directional nanofilm mimics nature's curious feats
(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, textured surfaces provide some plants the ability to trap insects and pollen, certain insects the ability to walk on water, and the gecko the ability to climb walls. Being able ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Microfluidic integrated circuit could help enable home diagnostic tests (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- As a way to simplify lab-on-a-chip devices that could offer quicker, cheaper and more portable medical tests, University of Michigan researchers have created microfluidic integrated circuits.
Apr 21, 2010 |
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A Lab-on-a-Chip With Moveable Channels
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC engineering researchers create tiny pools without walls with programmable microfluidic systems.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Marriage of microfluidics and optics could advance lab-on-a-chip devices
With a silicone rubber "stick-on" sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers at Harvard are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a micro-sized package.
Feb 16, 2010 |
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IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)
IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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