Analytical applications such as genotyping, gene expression analysis and digital PCR have been enabled and enhanced through the use of soft lithography–fabricated microfluidic platforms that ...

By incorporating electrodes into a chip, these droplets can be manipulated and positioned where required, thus providing a digital microfluidic device. Such an approach has been utilized to ...

It's not a one-trick pony, so to speak. –Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley These microvalves offered an improvement for conventional methods: They provided a powerful platform for ...

The VenaFlux Platform is the first semi-automated microfluidic platform capable of executing cell rolling, binding, adhesion and migration studies under shear flow mimicking in vivo flow rates.

Microfluidic platforms address this limitation by enabling the creation of in vitro models that closely replicate the physiological conditions of the human heart. Microfluidics involves ...

The lab has engineered a viscoelastic microfluidic platform for label-free, high-resolution isolation of circulating tumor cells and extracellular vesicles. Additionally, a thermophoretic microfluidic ...

The compact MIRO CANVAS provides true walk-away automation of complex next generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation and hybridization protocols, requiring only 15 minutes of hands-on time. The ...

Cancer accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020—almost one in every six deaths globally—according to the World Health Organization. Because the detection of abnormal diseased cellular growth ...

Insights that we gain are applied to the rational design and fabrication of diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic platforms. A central theme to this research is an exploitation of microfabrication ...

Microfluidics (also called 'lab-on-chip') has been touted as a means to miniaturize biology and chemistry on tiny, hand-held devices (see picture). There are numerous advantages with microfluidics ...