Biomicrofluidics

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Do Teaching and Communicating About Microfluidics Advances Need Improvement?

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2019 — Microfluidics and learning-on-a-chip research — involving the manipulation of small amounts of fluids to run miniaturized experiments in physics, chemistry, biology […]

New Technique Promises Improved Metastatic Prostate Cancer Detection

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2019 — Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths worldwide. Deaths from prostate cancer are primarily due to metastasized cancer, […]

Better Assessing Bacterial Sensitivity to Antibiotics Could Change How Drugs Are Prescribed

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 5, 2019 — We rely on antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, but the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria forces doctors and patients to contend with […]

Creating Room to Breathe on the Microscale

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2018 — Respiratory distress syndrome is the second major cause of newborn mortality. Health care providers especially struggle to deliver oxygen to preterm […]

Sweating the Small Stuff

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1, 2018 — When people sweat, they unknowingly release a wide range of chemicals that can noninvasively inform clinicians on anything from stress hormone levels […]

Engineering a New Spin for Disease Diagnostics

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2018 — Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a new platform with the potential to extract tiny circulating biomarkers of […]

Bioprinted Veins Reveal New Drug Diffusion Details

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3, 2017 — Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different purposes in mind, from advanced robotics and […]

What’s a Knot — and What’s Not — in Genomic Mapping

WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2017 — While DNA sequencing provides precise, nucleotide-by-nucleotide genomic information, genome mapping provides a bigger-picture perspective of sequenced DNA that can provide valuable […]

Detection System Reads Biomolecules in Barcoded Microgels

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2016 — Single-stranded, noncoding micro-ribonucleic acids (microRNAs), consisting of 18-23 nucleotides, play a key role in regulating gene expression. Levels of microRNAs circulating […]