As any good hacker (or scientist) knows, sometimes you find the tools you need in unexpected places. For one group of MIT scientists, that place is a box of Lego. Graduate student [Crystal Owens] was ...
Isolating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patient blood is the fundamental principle behind liquid biopsy and numerous microfluidic devices have been developed in recent years to increase the ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2016 -- Single-stranded, noncoding micro-ribonucleic acids (microRNAs), consisting of 18-23 nucleotides, play a key role in regulating gene expression. Levels of ...
(Nanowerk News) Microfluidic devices are compact testing tools made up of tiny channels carved on a chip, which allow biomedical researchers to test the properties of liquids, particles and cells at a ...
Albert Folch receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies to fund his microfluidics research and he is the co-founder of OncoFluidics, a startup that aims to to lower the ...
Microfluidics technology has contributed to powerful tools that have helped advance many areas of biology. The applications of microfluidic systems in chemistry and biochemistry have increased in ...
A research group led by Professor Hiroaki SUZUKI and Takeshi HAYAKAWA from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University, graduate student Zhitai HUANG, graduate students Kanji KANEKO (at ...
It’s as if the go-to analogy these days for anything technical is, “It’s like a series of tubes.” Explanations thus based work better for some things than others, and even when the comparison is apt ...