Miniaturized devices such as microsensors often require an independent, equally miniaturized power supply. Searching for suitable systems, Japanese scientists have now developed a fully integrated microfluidic device that ...
Materials Science
Jun 14, 2017
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For more than a decade, scientists have publicized the potential of microfluidics to revolutionize the test and analysis of substances ranging from water to DNA. Thousands of journal articles have chronicled researchers' ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 24, 2017
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Microscopic probes developed at Rice University have simplified the process of measuring electrical activity in individual cells of small living animals. The technique allows a single animal like a worm to be tested again ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 17, 2017
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Defects that break the symmetry of otherwise orderly material are called topological defects. In solid crystals, they are called dislocations because they interrupt the regularly structured atom lattice. In contrast, topological ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2017
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Biomedical engineering researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed inexpensive paper pumps that use capillary action to power portable microfluidic devices, ...
Biochemistry
Mar 8, 2017
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Researchers at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences have collaborated with colleagues from other research institutions and created a microfluidic system for ultra-high-performance screening ...
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2017
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Instead of running tests on live kidneys, researchers at Binghamton, University State University of New York have developed a model kidney for working out the kinks in medicines and treatments.
Biochemistry
Feb 9, 2017
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In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on bacteria much more efficiently using microfluidic devices, in which each of the thousands of droplets moving through the microchannels can act as separate ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 12, 2017
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Swapping delicate microscopic flow valves for a universal modular valve system has enabled A*STAR researchers to dramatically decrease the cost and complexity of microfluidic diagnostic chips—business card-sized devices ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 11, 2017
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Art was created with proportions in mind so spaces would make mathematical sense. Now two mathematicians from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and their team have created art of their own: a method that precisely ...
Materials Science
Nov 17, 2016
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