News tagged with magnetic beads
Micromagnetic-microfluidic device could quickly pull pathogens from the bloodstream
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Sepsis, an infection of the blood, can quickly overwhelm the body's defenses and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Premature newborns and people with weakened immune systems are especially ...
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Detecting Disease
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
Microswimmers" make a big splash for improved drug delivery
Jan 12, 2009 |
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They may never pose a challenge to Olympic superstar Michael Phelps, but the "microswimmers" developed by researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom could break a long-standing barrier to improving delivery of medications ...
Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer
Mar 16, 2007 |
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By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking ...
An 'attractive' man-machine interface
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive ...
Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed ...
A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and ...
Toward non-invasive disease diagnosis with 'wellness cards'
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Scientists are reporting development of a device that could serve as the electronic "reader" for a coming generation of "wellness cards," specimen holders used to diagnose disease from a drop of a patient's ...
Researchers develop new, more-sensitive assay for detecting DNA methylation in colon cancer
Aug 16, 2009 |
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A study published in this week's online issue of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates a unique and highly sensitive method for detecting methylation-associated cancers.
New polymer that changes color instantly in response to external magnetic field (w/Video)
Jun 16, 2009 |
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A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change ...
Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2007 |
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By injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a magnetic ‘tweezer’, scientists of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics ...
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