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Rensas Electronics Adopts Cadence Interconnect Workbench to Improve On-Chip Interconnect Performance

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation has adopted the Cadence® Interconnect Workbench (IWB) to accelerate performance analysis and verification of their on-chip interconnects by up to 50 percent.

12 Jul 2016

New Energy-Efficient Microchip with 1000 Processors the First of its Kind

A research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of California, Davis, have developed a microchip that consists of 1000 independent programmable processors.

20 Jun 2016

Novel Microfluidic Device Enables Automatic Double Extraction and Purification of Target Cells

A team of researchers from University of Cincinnati (UC) in Cincinnati, OH have developed a novel microfluidic device, which combines the inertial effect of fluid and microscale vortices generated in microchambers, to achieve simultaneous double sorting of rare target cells and removal of background cells.

23 May 2016

New Method for Rapid Neutrophil Chemotaxis Test Using Microfluidic System

A team of researchers from the University of Manitoba in collaboration with local clinical scientists in Winnipeg, Canada, have developed a new method for rapid neutrophil chemotaxis test directly from a small drop of whole blood using a microfluidic system.

23 May 2016

Researchers Use Cellphone Principles to Track Cells Being Sorted on Microfluidic Chips

The unique identifying number provided for every single phone enables text messages and phone calls to reach individuals wherever they are situated. A similar cell principle has been used by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology to track cells sorted on microfluidic chips.

22 Apr 2016

New Visual Readout Method Enables Cell-Phone Camera to Quantify Single Nucleic-Acid Molecules

Diagnostic health care is often restricted in areas with limited resources, because the procedures required to detect many of the molecular markers that can diagnose diseases are too complex or expensive to be used outside of a central laboratory.

25 Feb 2016

Kiel University Researchers Aim to Detect 100 Biomarkers on the Chip

A whole lab in your hand: researchers at Kiel University have developed a chip that can recognise various proteins in a drop of blood. This could make medical diagnoses much quicker and cheaper in the future.

11 Feb 2016

Reprogrammable Origami Tubes May Provide Foundation for Antennas, Microfluidic Devices

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can reconfigure themselves to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties can change in operation – and even heating and air-conditioning ductwork that adjusts to demand.

28 Jan 2016

Physicists Discover Route to Lab-on-a-Chip Technology for Magnetic Resonance

A novel method of measuring magnetic resonance has been developed for use in lab-on-chip technology. The method uses a microscopic garnet crystal which nanomechanically twists in response to an external magnetic field which can be observed with spectroscopy.

13 Nov 2015

Portable Lab-in-a-Briefcase Could Help Boost Cancer Detection in Developing Countries

Academics at Loughborough University hope to boost early detection rates of cancer in developing countries with their portable lab-in-a-briefcase that can operate even at high temperatures.

2 Nov 2015

Lab on a Chip News

Rensas Electronics Adopts Cadence Interconnect Workbench to Improve On-Chip Interconnect Performance

New Energy-Efficient Microchip with 1000 Processors the First of its Kind

Novel Microfluidic Device Enables Automatic Double Extraction and Purification of Target Cells

New Method for Rapid Neutrophil Chemotaxis Test Using Microfluidic System

Researchers Use Cellphone Principles to Track Cells Being Sorted on Microfluidic Chips

New Visual Readout Method Enables Cell-Phone Camera to Quantify Single Nucleic-Acid Molecules

Kiel University Researchers Aim to Detect 100 Biomarkers on the Chip

Reprogrammable Origami Tubes May Provide Foundation for Antennas, Microfluidic Devices

Physicists Discover Route to Lab-on-a-Chip Technology for Magnetic Resonance

Portable Lab-in-a-Briefcase Could Help Boost Cancer Detection in Developing Countries

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

A New Language for Nanopore Design

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

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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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