'Lab on a Chip' Detects Human, Agricultural Contaminants
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2010
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Cell phones are accumulating a Swiss Army Knife-esqe assortment of capabilities; substituting as cameras, providing internet access, and soon operating as medical labs if Aydogan Ozcan's plans come to fruition. This month's ...
Engineering
Jun 30, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor has developed a new model that could revolutionize the design of hand-held devices that provide reliable, nearly instant medical or environmental tests.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 31, 2010
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Scientists in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device — microscopic technology that can transport fluids for medical ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new 'fertility chip', developed by researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (The Netherlands), can accurately count spermatozoa in sperm. This is an important step ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 16, 2010
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The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze complex solutions ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 18, 2009
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It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical Electronics at ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 22, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The need for improved monitoring of neurotrauma patients has resulted in the development of a prototype of a novel, multitasking “lab on a tube” at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Biochemistry
May 4, 2009
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One of the challenges that cancer researchers face in designing new antitumor agents is that of predicting how drug molecules will behave in the complex microenvironment that surrounds a tumor. In particular, tumors create ...
Biochemistry
Feb 23, 2009
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Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new tool that makes it possible to study the signals in the body that control the generation of blood vessels. The researchers’ findings, published in the new issue of ...
Feb 19, 2009
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