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Technology Research News January 26, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
Braille Display Drives Biochip What do you get when you cross microscopic fluid-filled channels, computers, and Braille?  |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Jennifer Ouellette |
A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key  |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 |
Microchannel Folds Fluids Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a passive mixing scheme that causes the flow of liquids on a microfluidic chip to split, rotate and recombine so that the fluid repeatedly folds in on itself and so mixes relatively quickly despite the lack of turbulence.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Biochip makes droplet test tubes Researchers who are developing biochips are taking two distinct approaches in devising ways to shunt tiny amounts of liquids around. One focuses on finding ways to form microscopic channels and tiny mechanical pumps. The other is aimed at using electricity to maneuver tiny droplets on surfaces.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Katrina Kramer |
Microfluidics for the masses US scientists have developed a series of microfluidic building blocks that allow researchers to construct devices by assembling the components like Lego.  |
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Anthony King |
LED triggers microfluidic mixing French scientists have developed a way to mix fluids in microfluidic devices using light from an external LED as a trigger. The strategy is simple but offers good control over mixing without complex components.  |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 |
Trapped Cells Make Micromotors Researchers have showed that it is possible to make live Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells rotate while pinned in a laser trap. The energy of a light beam can be used to manipulate and trap cells much like the way wind moves objects a larger scale.  |
Chemistry World June 26, 2008 Bea Perks |
Liquid Crystals Stand up for DNA Detection Liquid crystals that realign in response to DNA can reveal subtle sequence alterations, even a single base mutation, report US scientists.  |