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• Microfluidics for empowering nanoemulsification procedures

  Author:Steve MesiteFrom:Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Vol. 32, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 15, 2011514 words Article 1430LWith the advent of nanoemulsions as appropriate drug delivery systems, the focus has been toward the enhancement of nutrients, drugs, and even cancer treatments. As a result of extensive experimentation, researchers...

• Optimizing the discovery and clinical translation of nanoparticles: could microfluidics hold the key?

  Authors:Jong-Min Lim and Rohit KarnikFrom:Nanomedicine (Vol. 9, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20142,347 words Article 1880LAuthor(s): Jong-Min Lim aff1 , Rohit Karnik aff1 Keywords: combinatorial screening; combinatorial synthesis; lab-on-a-chip; nanomedicine; organ-on-a-chip Since the first demonstration of a liposomal drug...

• Suss MicroTec and iX-factory are combining efforts to work on microfluidics and optical MEMS

  From:Solid State Technology (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 200923 words Brief article 1410LSuss MicroTec and iX-factory are combining efforts to work on microfluidics and optical MEMS, based on Suss' new mask/bond aligners and wafer bonders....

• Research Highlights

  Authors:Sao Jiralerspong, Ana M Gonzalez-Angulo, and Michael D KaneFrom:Personalized Medicine (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20081,564 words Article 1430LAuthor(s): Sao Jiralerspong 1 2 , Ana M Gonzalez-Angulo 1 3 , Michael D Kane 4 Microfluidics and personalized cancer therapy Evaluation of: Komen J, Wolbers F, Franke HR, Andersson H, Vermes I, van den Berg A:...

• Pushing miRNA quantification to the limits: high-throughput miRNA gene expression analysis using single-molecule detection

  Authors:Christopher M Puleo, Kelvin Liu, and Tza-Huei WangFrom:Nanomedicine (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20063,495 words Report Author(s): Christopher M Puleo 1 , Kelvin Liu 1 , Tza-Huei Wang [[dagger]1,2] 2 Keywords: confocal fluorescence spectroscopy; fluorescence coincidence detection; gene expression analysis; LNA-DNA oligonucleotide...

• Swimming Using Surface Acoustic Waves

  Authors:Yannyk Bourquin and Jonathan M. CooperFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19, 20133,298 words Article 1410LAuthor(s): Yannyk Bourquin, Jonathan M. Cooper * Introduction Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are commonly known to engineers as mechanical waves that can be induced at the interface of a transducer, often using the...

• A Flexible and Highly Sensitive Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor Based on Micropatterned Films Coated with Carbon Nanotubes

  Authors:Jia-lin Yao, Xing Yang, Na Shao, Hui Luo, Ting Zhang, and Wu-gui JiangFrom:Journal of NanomaterialsPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20162,456 words Article 1510LExcellent flexibility, high sensitivity, and low consumption are essential characteristics in flexible microtube pressure sensing occasion, for example, implantable medical devices, industrial pipeline, and microfluidic...

• Optimal Branching Structure of Fluidic Networks with Permeable Walls

  Authors:Vinicius R. Pepe, Luiz A.O. Rocha, and Antonio F. MiguelFrom:BioMed Research International (Vol. 2017) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20175,330 words Report 1450LBiological and engineering studies of Hess-Murray's law are focused on assemblies of tubes with impermeable walls. Blood vessels and airways have permeable walls to allow the exchange of fluid and other dissolved...

• Study on microchannel design and burst frequency detection for centrifugal microfluidic system

  Authors:Yaw-Jen Chang, Shia-Chung Chen, and Cheng-Li HsuFrom:Advances in Materials Science and EngineeringPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20133,778 words Report 1420LA centrifugal microfluidic system has been developed in this study, enabling the control and measurement of the burst frequency in order to manipulate the liquid. The radial microfluid chips with different microchannel...

• Affecting the ageing behaviour of injection-moulded microparts using variothermal mould tempering

  Authors:Steve Meister and Dietmar DrummerFrom:Advances in Mechanical EngineeringPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20134,024 words Article 1270LThe fast cooling of the melt in an injection moulding process for manufacturing polymer microparts can lead to a modified inner structure, resulting in minor mechanical properties. Furthermore, the ageing can be also...

• Alterations in red blood cell deformability during storage: a microfluidic approach

  Authors:Judith C.A. Cluitmans, Venkatachalam Chokkalingam, Arno M. Janssen, Roland Brock, Wilhelm T.S. Huck, and Giel J.C.G.M. BosnianFrom:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20145,357 words Report 1440LRed blood cells (RBCs) undergo extensive deformation when travelling through the microcapillaries. Deformability, the combined result of properties of the membrane-cytoskeleton complex, the surface area-to-volume ratio,...

• Experimental Investigation of Piezoelectric Micropumps with Single, Series or Parallel Pump Chambers.

  Authors:Yanfang Guan, Mingyang Bai, Xiangxin Meng, Yansheng Liu, and Fengqian XuFrom:International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20203,954 words Article 1530LThree types of piezoelectric micropumps following different configurations: single, series, and parallel connection, are developed and investigated. All the micropumps are fabricated by wet etching technology and sealed...

• Hepatic Gene Expression Profile in Mice Perorally Infected with Echinococcus multilocularis Eggs

  Authors:Bruno Gottstein, Matthias Wittwer, Marc Schild, Michael Merli, Stephen L. Leib, Norbert Muller, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 1, 20107,689 words Article 1470LBackground Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a severe chronic hepatic parasitic disease currently emerging in central and eastern Europe. Untreated AE presents a high mortality (>90%) due to a severe hepatic...

• High Throughput Gene Expression Measurement with Real Time PCR in a Microfluidic Dynamic Array

  Authors:Sandra L. Spurgeon, Robert C. Jones, and Ramesh RamakrishnanFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 27, 20085,523 words Article 1350LWe describe a high throughput gene expression platform based on microfluidic dynamic arrays. This system allows 2,304 simultaneous real time PCR gene expression measurements in a single chip, while requiring less...

• A Phthalimide Derivative That Inhibits Centrosomal Clustering Is Effective on Multiple Myeloma

  Authors:Hirokazu Shiheido, Fukiko Terada, Noriko Tabata, Ichigo Hayakawa, Nobutaka Matsumura, Hideaki Takashima, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 25, 20127,155 words Article 1450LDespite the introduction of newly developed drugs such as lenalidomide and bortezomib, patients with multiple myeloma are still difficult to treat and have a poor prognosis. In order to find novel drugs that are...

• Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics

  Authors:David S Kong, Todd A Thorsen, Jonathan Babb, Scott T Wick, Jeremy J Gam, Ron Weiss, et al.From:Nature Biotechnology (Vol. 35, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20175,637 words Report 1530LMicrofluidic devices have the potential to automate and miniaturize biological experiments, but open-source sharing of device designs has lagged behind sharing of other resources such as software. Synthetic biologists...

• Microfluidic device to attain high spatial and temporal control of oxygen

  Authors:Sandra F. Lam, Venktesh S. Shirure, Yunli E. Chu, Alan G. Soetikno, and Steven C. GeorgeFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20, 20187,930 words Report 1500LMicrofluidic devices have been successfully used to recreate in vitro biological microenvironments, including disease states. However, one constant issue for replicating microenvironments is that atmospheric oxygen...

• Multiplex chromatin interactions with single-molecule precision

  Authors:Meizhen Zheng, Simon Zhongyuan Tian, Daniel Capurso, Minji Kim, Rahul Maurya, Byoungkoo Lee, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 566, Issue 7745) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20194,721 words Report 1490LThe genomes of multicellular organisms are extensively folded into 3D chromosome territories within the nucleus.sup.1. Advanced 3D genome-mapping methods that combine proximity ligation and high-throughput sequencing...

• Microfluidic platforms for performing surface-based clinical assays

  Authors:Mark D Tarn and Nicole PammeFrom:Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20115,673 words Article 1730LAuthor(s): Mark D Tarn 1 , Nicole Pamme [[dagger]] 2 Keywords : clinical assays; diagnostics; heterogeneous immunoassays; magnetic particles; microfluidics; particles; surface-based Immunoassays are an...

• On-chip flow cytometry: where is it now and where is it going?

  Authors:Michael Ian Lapsley, Lin Wang, and Tony Jun HuangFrom:Biomarkers in Medicine (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20132,119 words Report 1400LAuthor(s): Michael Ian Lapsley 1 , Lin Wang 2 , Tony Jun Huang [*] 3 KEYWORDS : FACS; flow cytometry; fluorescence-activated cell sorting; microfabrication; microfluidics Flow cytometry is a powerful,...