Quantcast
Channel: FluidicMEMS » academia
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microfluidics, by JoVE

Sometimes there’s no substitute for a demo. In experimental work, techniques are commonly passed on from person to person. (I somehow ended up pipetting left-handed for years because of the single time...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tracking science news across the web

I studied engineering, not journalism, so the way science research enters the mainstream has always been mysterious to me, like wondering how migrating birds find their way thousands of miles to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microfluidic art from the Folch lab

One of the best things about microfluidics research is the images. Colored dyes are used to track liquid flow, often producing beautiful photographs such as those seen in the artistic collaboration...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A new era for DIY science

Lately DIY science seems to be everywhere. A few weeks ago Nature Biotechnology published an article on the DIYbio movement, while Technology Review wrote about how to take pictures of the earth from...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Wikipedia list of academic microfluidics research

It turns out that Wikipedia has an extensive list of academic microfluidics/bioMEMS research groups worldwide. Although the list is long, there are probably many groups missing. I know this because...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Watch this space: Jose Gomez-Marquez’s lab at MIT’s IIH

If you’re interested in international development and microfluidics, check out Jose Gomez-Marquez’s group at MIT — they’re at the forefront of creating technologies for global health as part of the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Michael Vahey wins Senturia Prize for microfluidic / isodielectric cell...

I’m happy to announce that Michael Vahey, a former colleague from the Voldman lab at MIT, has won this year’s Senturia Prize for his Ph.D. thesis work on a novel microfluidic technique for separating...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microfluidic computation: Manu Prakash’s work on bubble logic

Microfluidic devices have been described as  “computer chips with plumbing.”  But could microfluidics actually be used for computation?  Manu Prakash thinks so.  As a student in Neil Gershenfeld’s lab...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

More on the CTC-chip: Talk by Daniel Haber

Thanks to Steve Pemberton, who mentioned this June 2010 talk by Daniel Haber given during a symposium at the Koch Institute on integrative approaches to cancer. Haber is collaborating with Mehmet...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microfluidics can control how stem cells communicate

A-B. Microfluidic perfusion device. C. Microfluidic perfusion systems use flow to fine-tune the relative significance of convection, diffusion, and reaction. Exciting to see the work of Dr. Katarina...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images