Tag: microfluidics

Researchers found that reducing SLITRK2 levels in human stem cell-derived FUS-ALS motor neurons restores axonal health and neuromuscular junction signaling, ...

MIT engineers have created a handheld microfluidic device that gently collects living cells from targeted tissue locations, potentially enabling earlier ...

A 3.75 MHz surface-acoustic-wave microchip achieved up to 99.4 percent recovery of MCF-7 tumor-cell models while routing cellulose-nanofiber suspensions to ...

Japanese researchers have built a microfluidic chip that uses human macrophages as living biological transducers, converting unknown cancer-cell-derived signals into ...

High-speed video has revealed that the honey bee's detached stinger functions as a sophisticated autonomous double-piston micropump that keeps injecting ...

New research in PLOS Biology defines the titanide, a tiny stress-resistant cell type that Cryptococcus neoformans generates from typical yeast ...

MIT chemical engineers have built an automated, self-correcting platform that rapidly produces lipid nanoparticles of precisely controlled sizes and shapes, ...

A microfluidic 3D tumor model reveals that glucose limits proliferation, oxygen shapes architecture, and glutamine is essential for lung cancer ...

Single-cell analysis of Cambodian children with dengue reveals that hospitalized patients mount weaker, lower-affinity antibody responses lacking quaternary-epitope-specific cells compared ...

Researchers used Bayesian optimization with Gaussian process surrogate modeling to design microfluidic deterministic lateral displacement chips that separate circulating tumor ...

Microfluidic intestinal-chips that replicate human gut physiology are emerging as powerful tools for food safety testing, functional food development and ...

Researchers used droplet-based microfluidics to create porous polycaprolactone microspheres that outperform compact ones at stimulating collagen production in human skin ...

A microfluidic model built from primary human placental cells shows how cadmium undermines placental function at doses that cause no ...

Researchers at the University of Otago have encapsulated antimicrobial mānuka oil and β-triketones in chitosan nanoparticles that release the compounds ...

Researchers at Xi'an Jiaotong University have developed a bioinspired fluidic strain sensor whose drum-shaped microstructures harness the Poisson effect to ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed 3D-nanoprinted reflective micromirror inserts that enable single-objective light sheet microscopy in commercially available sample ...

Fluorescent defects in atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride can detect and identify individual ions in liquids through spectral shifts, enabling ...

Researchers at Peking University have developed a horizontal-up manifold microchannel cooler that uses the dielectric fluid HFE-7100 to achieve a ...

Researchers in Portugal have developed a passive microfluidic multiplexer that mixes fluids at flow rate ratios up to 1:6 and ...

A microfluidic nanoblade device that slices open the membranes of thousands of cells at once reveals that cells prioritize repairing ...