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Researchers Develop Prototype Lab-on-a-Chip Device that Closely Mimics Natural Golgi Apparatus

Scientists in New York and North Carolina are reporting assembly of the first functioning prototype of an artificial Golgi organelle. That key structure inside cells helps process and package hormones, enzymes, and other substances that allow the body to function normally.

29 Jul 2009

Lab on a Chip: Highly Sensitive Detection of Bacteria with Magnetic Nanoparticles and a Miniaturized NMR Method

Researchers working with Ralph Weissleder at Harvard Medical School have now developed a very simple process for the rapid detection of pathogens that requires no further sample preparation. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, this technique is based on magnetic nanoparticles and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement.

29 Jul 2009

Music Driving Experimental Samples Through Lab-on-a-Chip

Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significantly simplify the process of co...

22 Jul 2009

Portable 'Lab on a Chip' that can Identify Target Molecules in Blood Samples

A portable 'lab on a chip' that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes associated with certain...

14 Jul 2009

New "Lab-on-a-Chip" Measuring Water Stress in Grapevines

Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences professor ended up back at the drawing board.

6 Jul 2009

Moving Liquids or Biological Components Such As Cells at Microscopic Scale

Scientists at the University of Washington hope to speed up biomedical reactions by filling each well with tiny beating rods that mimic cilia, the hairlike appendages that line organs such as the human windpipe, where they sweep out dirt and mucus from the lungs. The researchers created a prototype that mixes tiny volumes of fluid or creates a current to move a particle, according to research published in the journal Lab on a Chip.

30 Jun 2009

"Lab-on-a-Chip" Helping Researchers Understand Mechanical Behavior Of Biofilms And Slimy Colonies Of Bacteria

Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a microscale tool to help them understand the mechanical behavior of biofilms, slimy colonies of bacteria involved in most human infectious diseases. Most bacteri...

30 Jun 2009

New Way to Perform Optical Trapping on a Chip-Based Platform

A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest innovation from researchers at t...

30 Jun 2009

Global Intellectual Property Analysis Finds Areas of Biofuels, Telecommunication and Nanotechnology Show Strong R+D Growth Through Q109

Biofuels based on algae are among the hottest areas of R+D in the global intellectual property marketplace, according to an analysis of world patent activity published today by the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuter...

29 Jun 2009

New Sensing Method Relies On Nanoscale Holes Drilled Into A Microfluidic Device

A new sensing method that relies on nanoscale holes drilled into a microfluidic device also could add "faster" to the list of benefits afforded by microfluidics.

26 Jun 2009

Lab on a Chip News

Researchers Develop Prototype Lab-on-a-Chip Device that Closely Mimics Natural Golgi Apparatus

Lab on a Chip: Highly Sensitive Detection of Bacteria with Magnetic Nanoparticles and a Miniaturized NMR Method

Music Driving Experimental Samples Through Lab-on-a-Chip

Portable 'Lab on a Chip' that can Identify Target Molecules in Blood Samples

New "Lab-on-a-Chip" Measuring Water Stress in Grapevines

Moving Liquids or Biological Components Such As Cells at Microscopic Scale

"Lab-on-a-Chip" Helping Researchers Understand Mechanical Behavior Of Biofilms And Slimy Colonies Of Bacteria

New Way to Perform Optical Trapping on a Chip-Based Platform

Global Intellectual Property Analysis Finds Areas of Biofuels, Telecommunication and Nanotechnology Show Strong R+D Growth Through Q109

New Sensing Method Relies On Nanoscale Holes Drilled Into A Microfluidic Device

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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