Additionally, a thermophoretic microfluidic platform combined with functional DNA materials has been devised ... Find out who is eligible for this award, about the nomination process, and see who is ...

And even for those assays for which microfluidic solutions are not available, adventurous researchers have avenues to fabricate their own 'lab on a chip'. Still, all this good news raises a ...

The newly introduced Agilent 5100 Automated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform (ALP) offers a high-throughput system to overcome the limitations of slab gel analysis in protein and DNA sizing and quantitation.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis because of microbes, such as bacteria, becoming resistant to ...

Trimethoprim (TMP), a widely used antibiotic often present in wastewater treatment plant discharge, can disrupt the ecosystem ...

A new $100,000 grant awarded to SMU engineering professors J.-C. Chiao and Ali Beskok will assist in their development of a fast, portable tool for point-of-care medical diagnoses.

This device is now widely regarded as the first Lab-on-a-Chip although this term had not been coined at this point. Researchers now realized that microfluidics had the potential to enable the ...

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 ...

George’s lab developed a prototype device that measures memory B cells based on how well they can stick to a surface by ...

This presentation describes the development and application of a 3D-printed lab-on-a-chip that concurrently detects ... methods used to detect the presence of antibodies and nucleic acids on the ...

Thus, lab-on-a-chip appears as a viable diagnostic tool since the shrinking of biochemical activities lowers costs, parallelizes operations, and improves diagnostic speed, sensitivity, and accuracy.