(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 3, 2009
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Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces ...
Nanophysics
Aug 25, 2009
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UCLA researchers have developed a matchbox-sized attachment that converts a cell phone's camera into a fluorescent microscope.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Oregon State University have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon “nanotubes” to increase the speed of biological sensors, a technology that might one day allow a doctor ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 9, 2012
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White blood cells, or leukocytes, are the immune system's warriors. So when an infection or disease attacks the body, the system typically responds by sending more white blood cells into the fray. This means that checking ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2013
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Cell rolling is a common mechanism cells use to navigate through the body. During inflammation, for example, the endothelial cells that line blood vessels present certain molecules that attract white blood cells just enough ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 24, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brigham Young University engineers and chemists has created an inexpensive silicon microchip that reliably detects viruses, even at low concentrations.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 8, 2010
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Scientists have been laboring to detect cancer and a host of other diseases in people using promising new biomarkers called "exosomes." Indeed, Popular Science magazine named exosome-based cancer diagnostics one of the 20 ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 7, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. ...
General Physics
May 11, 2009
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A new fabrication process could make it easier and less expensive to incorporate optical sensing onto lab-on-a-chip devices. These devices integrate laboratory functions onto a plastic or glass "chip" typically no more than ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 22, 2017
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