Microfluidics can create microenvironments into which investigational drugs can be added, the temperature changed, and any number of other variables controlled. The new nanoscale biomaterial is made out of collagen that was carefully applied to liver ...
Using microfabrication technology, single cells can be trapped in tiny microwells within the matrix. This approach makes it possible to process as many as 1,000 samples in the time that it used to take to process just 30 samples — allowing researchers ...
2014-04-08 MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology
For those interested in the tracking technology under the hood, the Fitbit Flex uses a MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) 3-axis accelerometer that measures your motion. Fitbit then pushes that data through its “special-sauce” algorithms to ...
These chips, called microfluidics chips, are increasingly common in research labs, but require expensive equipment and electricity to run. The expense and equipment required is a bottleneck in adapting the technology for science education and global ...
Sony's Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) then collaborated with at least three life science companies -- RainDance, Quanterix, and Caliper -- to invest in microfluidics, a liquid-handling technology used in DNA chips and lab-on-a-chips. In 2011, it ...
