Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2024
Unraveling life's origin: Five key breakthroughs from the past five years
There is still so much we don't understand about the origin of life on Earth.
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Bio & Medicine
May 3, 2024
Vortex fluidic device can speed artificial liposome production to aid drug functionality
The expansion of clean chemistry applications for the vortex fluidic device (VFD)—invented by Flinders University's Professor Colin Raston—continues with the successful rapid and simplified production of artificial liposomes ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2024
Researchers find that calcium can protect potato plants from bacterial wilt
Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial wilt. This disease causes worldwide losses of potatoes costing $19 billion per year. The findings ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 1, 2024
New single-cell analysis tech incorporates advanced fiber optics directly into microfluidic chips
Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized single-cell analysis, crucial for genomics, drug discovery, and diagnostics, by partitioning samples into nanoliter droplets for detailed cellular analysis. Yet, its broader adoption ...
Materials Science
Feb 23, 2024
Researchers design novel microfluidic module for controlling the porosity of manufactured materials
Porous materials are essential for many chemical processes, such as light harvesting, adsorption, catalysis, energy transfer, and even new technologies for electronic materials. Therefore, many efforts have been made to control ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2024
Microfluidic environments alter microbe behaviors, opening potential for engineering their social evolution
Microbes are social beings. Much like humans, they communicate and cooperate with each other to solve problems bigger than themselves. In a microbial community, there will even be free riders and others that police them.
Ecology
Feb 1, 2024
Microfluidic chip reveals that bacteria swim toward large, complex polymers
Using a novel microfluidic chip, ETH researchers led by Professor Roman Stocker and Estelle Clerc have shown that bacteria not only recognize small food molecules, but also swim towards large, complex polymers. A startup ...
Soft Matter
Dec 7, 2023
Understanding the formation of minute droplets in microfluidic devices
The detailed physics behind droplet generation in microfluidic post-array devices has been clarified by scientists at Tokyo Tech. Through various experiments performed under different operational conditions, they gained important ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 7, 2023
Researchers develop a reflective display technique based on electro-microfluidic assembly of particles
In an article published in Light: Science & Applications, a team of scientists, led by Professor Lingling Shui from the International Joint Laboratory of Optofluidic Technology and System (LOTS) at South China Normal University ...
Polymers
Nov 6, 2023
Hydrogel-assisted microfluidic spinning of stretchable fibers via fluidic and interfacial self-adaptation
Stretchable polymeric fibers have significant impact, although their production requires rigorous environmental methods and resource consumption. The process is challenging for elastic polymers with reduced spinnability and ...
