‘Lab on a Chip’ Could Monitor Exposure to Dangerous Molecules
An artists’ rendition of microparticles flowing through a channel and passing through electric fields, where they are detected electronically and barcode-scanned (Photo: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander...
View ArticleUBC Engineers Invent 3D-printed Device to Monitor Water Quality
UBC researchers say measuring water quality continuously is vital in ensuring people’s drinking water is safe (Image credit: WANYEE LI/METRO) Engineers at the University of British Okanagan have...
View ArticleSweat-Inducing Sensor Could Make Blood Samples Obsolete
Scientists have recently used medical sensors to collect and sample sweat. Collecting this fluid allows them to analyze a patient’s body far more thoroughly than most other methods ever could....
View ArticleRoche Joins Senseonics, TypeZero for Artificial Pancreas Trials
Senseonics and TypeZero’s R&D partnership around the artificial pancreas is leveling up. The two organizations announced today that they would team up with pharmaceutical and medical device company...
View ArticleMicrofluidics and Nanotechnology: Biosensing to the Single Molecule Limit
Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Liang-Yin Chu, Wei Wang ISBN: 978-3-527-34182-5 336 pages June 2017 Summary An increasing number of technologies are being used to detect minute...
View ArticleNanoscale Chip System Measures Light from a Single Bacterial Cell to Enable...
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a nanophotonic chip system using lasers and bacteria to observe fluorescence emitted from a single bacterial cell. To fix the bacteria in...
View ArticleVibrating Sensors Could Identify Blood Biomarkers
Purdue University researchers have found a method of identifying biological markers in small amounts of blood that they believe could be used to detect a myriad of diseases, infections and different...
View ArticleCarterra Inc. Raises $10M from Telegraph Hill Partners to Develop and Launch...
Carterra LSA, fully integrated high throughput mAb characterization platform (Image credit: Carterra Inc.) Carterra Inc., an innovative label-free biosensor company, has announced the closing of a $10M...
View ArticleMicrosensor Could Help Individualize Dialysis Treatment
Microscope picture of the microfluidic device developed by researcher Manoj Sharma. The horizontal stripe is the microchannel, which measures 0.2 mm across. The six other stripes are optic fibers that...
View ArticleNanomedical Diagnostics Releases Report on Affinity Ranking for Hit Validation
Agile R100 Nanomedical Diagnostics, leading manufacturer of graphene biosensors that accelerate pharmaceutical and biotherapeutics development, released a report for biochemists and chemists entitled,...
View ArticleMedical Sensors Design Conference
Rapid advances in medical technology, and the increasing need to store and rapidly access data are making sensors an important part of the medical landscape. At the Medical Sensors Design Conference...
View ArticleA New Sensor to Identify Proteins Responsible for Neuro-degenerative Diseases
In a new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, have designed a biosensor using gold nano-particles that can identify the presence of a protein called alpha-synuclein. The...
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