Tag: microfluidics

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 ...