See also stories tagged with Microfluidics

Search results for microfluidics

Soft Matter Aug 3, 2023

Ultrasound-based microfluidic manipulation platform for airborne droplets

As science races toward automation and quick experiments, it is sometimes required to concurrently handle small amounts of liquids (droplets), from picoliters to microliters. Moreover, droplet jumping is required when transporting ...

Space Exploration Jun 15, 2023

Microfluidics in space to detect extraterrestrial life signatures and monitor astronaut health

In a new report now published in npj Microgravity, Zachary Estlack and a research team in mechanical engineering and space sciences at the University of Utah and the University of California, Berkeley, developed a microfluidic ...

Analytical Chemistry May 8, 2023

IPODs: Making portable droplet microfluidic testing possible

Droplet microfluidics allows for quicker point-of-care testing (POCT), but it is not always as accurate and currently requires an amount of external effort for proper handling.

Bio & Medicine Apr 21, 2023

Microfluidic circuit for pulsatile filtration of extracellular vesicles from whole blood samples

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted lipid bilayer bioparticles with a diameter of 30 to 250 nm. They are a promising source of biomarkers for liquid biopsies for early cancer diagnosis and real-time monitoring ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 14, 2023

Ladder-shaped microfluidic systems for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing

The possibility of rapidly identifying antibiotic resistant bacteria can play a significant role in solving the global antibiotic crisis by facilitating the targeted and timely administration of pharmaceutical drugs. At present, ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 22, 2023

Microfluidic setup for the continuous production of multifunctional nanoparticles

The synthesis of multifunctional nanoparticles is commonly a complex endeavor and hampers the clinical translation of effective nanomedicines. In their most recent work, Matthias Barz and coworkers present a microfluidic ...

Biotechnology Feb 22, 2023

Fungal enzymes developed with microfluidics may be new organic tool in fight against crop-killers

Fungus is getting a pretty bad rap in pop culture right now thanks to HBO's hit zombie TV show "The Last of Us," in which a fungal mutation spread through the global food supply leads to the collapse of civilization. But ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 23, 2022

Microfluidic device erosion reduced with cavitation bubbles

Researchers embarked on a multidisciplinary project to determine how cavitation bubbles within micro- or nano-structures could mitigate surface erosion and enhance the efficiency in microfluidic mixing devices, often used ...

Bio & Medicine May 31, 2022

Microfluidics-assisted synthesis of stimuli-responsive chitosan microgels for drug delivery applications

Droplet microfluidics provide a robust platform to synthesize and functionalize micro- and nanoparticles in a range of applications, including drug delivery, screening, lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip applications, across ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 25, 2022

Faster, more efficient living cell separation achieved with new microfluidic chip

A Japanese research team created a new way to sort living cells suspended in fluid using an all-in-one operation in a lab-on-chip that required only 30 minutes for the entire separation process. This device eliminated the ...

page 4 from 40