Microfluidics is the science of designing, manufacturing, and formulating devices and processes that deal with volumes of fluid on the...
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Welcome to Rafael's Microfluidics Page. This site used to be hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, but since leaving the lab I have moved it to a personal site. I do not actively maintain the site nor add content to it, but I keep in online to provide information about the automated valve
We began writing up the six challenge prize design proposals into ‘challenge reports’
Achira Labs Microfludic Chip and Reader design by Empoise Design Studios, leading Indian industrial design studio based in Bangalore.
Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary field dealing with engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology, among others. Basically, it will design systems in which small volumes of fluids will be handled. We used to describe it as hair scale plumbing. You can miniaturize your experience, and you will win time, money and reduce risk and volumes.…
The Makers Guide to Microfluidics: Imagine a highway without any lane divides. Cars travel down the road generally all going the same direction, but without any lane lines it can be hard to stay straight. Cars get jostled all around and bump into each other, the flow of traffic is c…
Syntec Optics offers microlens array solutions using liquid marbles for microfluidics applications.
As any good hacker (or scientist) knows, sometimes you find the tools you need in unexpected places. For one group of MIT scientists, that place is a box of Lego. Graduate student [Crystal Owens] w…
A few weeks ago, researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, introduced a paper focusing on an innovative Lego-based modular microfluidics platform designed with...
MIT engineers have developed a novel microfluidics biosensor that detects diagnostic levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein biomarker for sepsis, in 25 minutes using less than a finger prick of blood.
Flow test series videos for the microfluidic lab-on-a-chip on www.uFluidic.com https://www.ufluidic.com/collections/microfluidic-chips/products/dg-dropseq-z120-droplet-microfluidics-chip
Antibodies have 2 identical light chains and 2 identical heavy chains held together via disulfide bonds. On tip of variable region (=tip of Y) is the Antigen-binding region= contains specific code (found by hypermutation= rapid code finding through trail and error) that is then clonally selected= type chosen for binding to antigen. Rest of antibody= constant region. Isotype switching= changing Ig isotypes (IgA, IgG, IgM, IgE, IgD).
A careful reader may have noticed that we’ve been posting a lot of stories about microfluidics. We’ve talked about the possible use of new sugar scaffolds in microfluidics, EU funding...
Simple but ingenious way to create lab-on-a-chip devices could become a model for teaching and research
control the formation of microvortices, which is the operating principle of numerous microfluidic devices. Thus, optimizing microcavity configuration for better use of microvortices
The global microfluidics market size reached USD 33.1 Billion in 2024 and grow at a CAGR of 12.64% to reach USD 101.8 Billion by 2033.
A large-area, fabric-like pump would potentially have applications, for example, in controlling water transport through a garment, such as a rain jacket, r
Organ-level physiology is recapitulated in vitro by culturing cells in perfused, microfluidic devices. An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic cell culture device created with microchip manufacturing methods that contains continuously perfused chambers inhabited by living cells arranged to simulate tissue- and organ-level physiology. By recapitulating the multicellular architectures, tissue-tissue interfaces, physicochemical microenvironments and vascular perfusion of the body, these devices produce levels of tissue and organ functionality not possible with conventional 2D or 3D culture systems. They also enable high-resolution, real-time imaging and in vitro analysis of biochemical, genetic and metabolic activities of living cells in a functional tissue and organ context. This technology has great potential to advance the study of tissue development, organ physiology and disease etiology. In the context of drug discovery and development, it should be especially valuable for the study of molecular mechanisms of action, prioritization of lead candidates, toxicity testing and biomarker identification.
