When it comes to research in fields such as chemistry or biology, historically these are things that have taken place in well-financed labs in commercial settings or academic institutions. However, ...

Micromotors could someday zip through wastewater picking up pollutants or race through the bloodstream delivering drugs. Researchers have developed a number of strategies, such as using chemical fuels ...

A research team recently developed "sliding walls" as a new technique for fluid control in microfluidic devices, allowing semi-rigid or rigid walls to slide inside a microfluidic chip. In a new report ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new flow-based method for manipulating and confining single particles in free solution, a process that will help address ...

The latest group of winning technologies has a little something for everyone—from scientists at the lab bench to those in the clinic and even the classroom.

This presentation will describe two microfluidic techniques that my research group has developed for single-cell manipulation and analysis. The first is called Digital microfluidic Isolation of Single ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The control of fluids at microscopic scales is fundamental to numerous technologies, from medical diagnostics to water purification. Traditionally, moving small volumes of liquid ...

In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...

A microfluidic approach combines electric slip and viscoelastic forces to sort nanoscale particles, increasing the purity of synthetic beads and cell vesicles. (Nanowerk News) Separating nanosized ...

A research collaboration has developed a technology capable of extracting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) directly from pure bone marrow—also known as bone marrow aspirate (BMA), a pivotal source of ...