Engineers use droplet microfluidics to create glucose-sensing microbeads
Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering
Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering
Engineering
May 18, 2012
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Scientists can now see biofilms, structured communities of microbes, in 3D and real time thanks to a laboratory instrument developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The instrument-a microfluidic reactor called System ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 10, 2015
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Scientists are using nanoparticle screening on personal care products and finding previously thought toxic chemicals may not be harmful.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 27, 2019
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Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis for cancer—when the disease is most treatable—is a global problem. And now a team of Chinese researchers proposes a global solution: have a user-friendly diagnostic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 1, 2013
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Respiratory distress syndrome is the second major cause of newborn mortality. Health care providers especially struggle to deliver oxygen to preterm newborns, who account for roughly one-tenth of all births in the U.S., because ...
General Physics
Jul 3, 2018
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Microfluidics and learning-on-a-chip research—involving the manipulation of small amounts of fluids to run miniaturized experiments in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine—are a prolific research field. But, so far, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 9, 2019
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Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the lungs through the branched structure of the bronchial ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2022
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HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are among the leading causes of death worldwide, and an estimated one-third of people with HIV/AIDS are co-infected with HCV. This makes them more likely to suffer worse outcomes ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 13, 2016
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Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a new platform with the potential to extract tiny circulating biomarkers of disease from patient blood. This simple, fast and convenient technique could help ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 6, 2018
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Ensuring adequate preservation of the millions of units of blood that are donated every year presents a challenge for blood banks, as blood can typically be stored for only six weeks after donation. A potential solution to ...
Soft Matter
Apr 21, 2020
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