News tagged with lab on a chip
The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics
Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical diagnostics, according to ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 06, 2012 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Innovative hand-held lab-on-a-chip could streamline blood testing
Samuel K. Sia, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed an innovative strategy for an integrated microfluidic-based diagnostic device—in effect, a lab-on-a-chip—that can ...
Jul 31, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
|
Researchers invent new drug delivery device to treat diabetes-related vision loss
A team of engineers and scientists at the University of British Columbia has developed a device that can be implanted behind the eye for controlled and on-demand release of drugs to treat retinal damage caused ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Droplets for detecting tumoral DNA
It will perhaps be possible, in the near future, to detect cancer by a simple blood or urine test. In fact, biologists from CNRS, Inserm, Paris Descartes and Strasbourg universities have developed a technique ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 23, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Webcam technology used to measure medications' effects on the heart
A common component in webcams may help drug makers and prescribers address a common side-effect of drugs called cardiotoxicity, an unhealthy change in the way the heart beats. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 03, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Through a Sensor, Holographically
(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
1
|
New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of researchers ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 17, 2011 |
4.7 / 5 (7) |
0
|
Handheld nanoLAB detects disease proteins in minutes
In 2009, Stanford University faculty member Shan Wang and doctoral students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall demonstrated that they could use the same ultrasensitive magnetic sensors that form the basis of today's compact, high-capacity ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 23, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
New lab-on-a-chip technology could improve accuracy of lab tests, deliver results sooner
(PhysOrg.com) -- Instead of a needle in the arm, a simple prick of the finger could one day provide more than enough blood for a laboratory to run a multitude of complex tests and deliver results in seconds. Researchers at ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 04, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Add-on device converts cell phones into wide-field fluorescent microscopes
UCLA researchers have developed a matchbox-sized attachment that converts a cell phone's camera into a fluorescent microscope.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 08, 2010 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
A 'USB' for medical diagnosis? Universal microfluidics connector could find broad use
Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a plug-in interface for the microfluidic chips that will form the basis of the next generation of compact medical devices. They hope that the "fit to flow" interface ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
0
|
Detecting cancer with the prick of a finger (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at BYU have created a micro device that could both decrease the amount of blood and time needed to test for cancer-markers in a patient’s blood.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 16, 2010 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
|
Nanofluidic 'multi-tool' separates and sizes nanoparticles
A wrench or a screwdriver of a single size is useful for some jobs, but for a more complicated project, you need a set of tools of different sizes. Following this guiding principle, researchers at the National ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 04, 2010 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
|
'Lab on a Chip' Detects Human, Agricultural Contaminants
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2010 |
4 / 5 (2) |
0
UCLA engineer's telemedicine invention poised to begin trials in Africa
Cell phones are accumulating a Swiss Army Knife-esqe assortment of capabilities; substituting as cameras, providing internet access, and soon operating as medical labs if Aydogan Ozcan's plans come to fruition. This month's ...
Jun 30, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Lab-on-a-chip
A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size. LOCs deal with the handling of extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of MEMS devices and often indicated by "Micro Total Analysis Systems" (µTAS) as well. Microfluidics is a broader term that describes also mechanical flow control devices like pumps and valves or sensors like flowmeters and viscometers. However, strictly regarded "Lab-on-a-Chip" indicates generally the scaling of single or multiple lab processes down to chip-format, whereas "µTAS" is dedicated to the integration of the total sequence of lab processes to perform chemical analysis. The term "Lab-on-a-Chip" was introduced later on when it turned out that µTAS technologies were more widely applicable than only for analysis purposes.
For more information about Lab-on-a-chip, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
