(Nanowerk News) The sorting of individual cells is necessary for many biological applications, including the isolation of specific cell types from cell suspensions. A fluorescence-activated cell ...

A review article by the research team supervised by assistant professor Pengfei Song, with Hang Yuan, an undergraduate student as the first author at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), ...

A passive method for sorting and fixing microbeads of different sizes could lead to cheaper and more functional biological assays, researchers report. Biological assays are an integral part of the ...

Single cells are essential for the generation of biologics, which is a fundamental requirement in biopharmaceutical research and development. The International Council for Harmonization of Technical ...

(Nanowerk News) The ability to detect circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as they travel through the blood can play an important role in early diagnosis, characterization of cancer subtypes, treatment ...

In a paper to be published in the September/December 2019 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago has ...

The field of droplet microfluidics has emerged as a transformative approach for utilising microscale droplets as individual reaction compartments. This technology facilitates the precise manipulation ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics and ...

Martin A. M. Gijs is a professor in the Institute of Microengineering, where he is responsible for the Microsystems Technology Group. His main interests are in developing technologies for novel ...