Search results for organ-on-a-chip

Quantum Physics May 17, 2021

Quantum computing: Cold chips can control qubits

Researchers and engineers from QuTech in the Netherlands and from Intel Corp., jointly designed and tested a chip to control qubits that can operate at extremely low temperatures, and opens the door to solving the "wiring ...

Bio & Medicine May 14, 2021

Microfluidics: The tiny, beautiful tech hidden all around you

When you think of micro- or nanotechnology, you likely think of small electronics like your phone, a tiny robot or a microchip. But COVID-19 tests—which have proven to be central to controlling the pandemic—are also a form ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 28, 2021

Breakthrough purification of fossil pollen using a new large-particle on-chip sorter

Particle sorting is fundamental to biological and medical research, although existing methods are unable to sort large-sized particles via high-throughput sorting. In a new report, Y. Kasai and a research team in Japan, Germany ...

Environment Apr 15, 2021

How the humble woodchip is cleaning up water worldwide

Australian pineapple, Danish trout, and Midwestern U.S. corn farmers are not often lumped together under the same agricultural umbrella. But they and many others who raise crops and animals face a common problem: excess nitrogen ...

Materials Science Apr 12, 2021

Painting with semiconductors

AMOLF researchers Lukas Helmbrecht and Wim Noorduin have developed a reactive ink that can be painted on an equally reactive canvas. The ink reacts with the material on the canvas to become a semiconductor that emits colored ...

Environment Mar 26, 2021

New problems arise for crop storage as planet gets warmer

For generations, Brian Sackett's family has farmed potatoes that are made into chips found on grocery shelves in much of the eastern U.S.

Biochemistry Mar 25, 2021

A disposable living laser printed on chip for drug screening

Scientists have created a new way to monitor subtle drug interactions between bacteria and antibiotics. By using a common office inkjet printer, researchers from NTU Singapore and China developed a disposable living laser ...

Materials Science Mar 18, 2021

Researchers help keep pace with Moore's Law by exploring a new material class

Progress in the field of integrated circuits is measured by matching, exceeding, or falling behind the rate set forth by Gordon Moore, former CEO and co-founder of Intel, who said the number of electronic components, or transistors, ...

Biotechnology Mar 10, 2021

A new map of protein binding locations in yeast advances understanding of gene regulation

A massive effort to map the precise binding locations of over 400 different kinds of proteins on the yeast genome has produced the most thorough and high-resolution map of chromosome architecture and gene regulation to date. ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 22, 2021

Researchers develop high throughput paper-based arrays of 3-D tumor models

By engineering common filter papers, similar to coffee filters, a team of NYU Abu Dhabi researchers have created high throughput arrays of miniaturized 3-D tumor models to replicate key aspects of tumor physiology, which ...

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