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Liquid lens creates tiny flexible laser on a chip

Physics / General Physics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. ...


Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...


Proteins in gel

Proteins in gel

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now ...


Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop

Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop

Biology /

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that ...


Researchers Demonstrate Molecular Delivery System for Molecular Communication

Biology /

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that in experiments being carried out jointly with Professor Kazuo Sutoh of the Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, and Associate Professor Shoji Takeuchi of the Institute ...


Biochip mimics the body to reveal toxicity of industrial compounds

Biochip mimics the body to reveal toxicity of industrial compounds

Biology /

created Dec 17, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A new biochip technology could eliminate animal testing in the chemicals and cosmetics industries, and drastically curtail its use in the development of new pharmaceuticals, according to new findings from ...


Lego system for production facilities

Lego system for production facilities

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Things that work on a small scale are not necessarily as successful on a large one. It takes a lot of patience and money to scale up analytical or therapeutic processes from the laboratory to industrial manufacture. ...


Researchers develop portable biosensor that rapidly detects avian influenza

Rapid Response to Avian Flu Threat

Biology /

created Jan 26, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Yanbin Li, professor of biological engineering in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, has developed a portable biosensor for in-field, rapid screening ...


Biochip allows genes to express themselves

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Biochip platforms that work as artificial cells are attractive for medical diagnostics, interrogation of biological processes, and for the production of important biomolecules. However, to match the complexity of nature, ...


Shrinking medical labs onto tiny chips

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 26, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

According to Dongqing Li, just about anything you can do in a medical lab, he can do faster, cheaper and better with a device that fits nicely in the palm of your hand.


Plastic biochip speeds up protein detection

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 28, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A new, fast, and inexpensive way to test for medically important molecules, such the blood clot protein thrombin and faulty proteins present in Alzheimer’s disease, could emerge from research published today in the journal ...


New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Purdue University researchers have developed a biochip that measures the electrical activities of cells and is capable of obtaining 60 times more data in just one reading than is possible with current technology.


Dr. Jim McMullin

Research lights up biochip potential

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 15, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research from a University of Alberta optics expert is shining a light on some of the challenges facing lab-on-a-chip technology. Electrical engineering professor Dr. Jim McMullin has developed a new type ...


China's biotech industry: An Asian dragon is growing

Biology /

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Backed by a government intent on promoting innovation and fuelled by the “brain gain” of talented scientists and entrepreneurs returning from abroad, China’s health biotech industry only needs a more favourable investment ...


Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Testing for deadly food, air and water pathogens may get a lot easier and cheaper thanks to the work of a Michigan State University researcher and his team.