Lab on a Chip
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ScienceA team from Cornell University has created a water-sensing silicon chip that's not only tiny, but is also reportedly "a hundred times more sensitive than current devices." What's more, the chips might be possible to mass-produce for just $5 a pop.
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ScienceArguably the world’s most famous painting, da Vinci's Mona Lisa has now been copied onto the world’s smallest canvas at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Harvard scientists are developing a device known as the spleen-on-a-chip, for treating sepsis by filtering pathogens from the blood.
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The V-chip is an inexpensive credit card-sized device, that can instantly test a single drop of blood for up to 50 different substances.
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ScienceScientists have developed a new technology that allows them to view live viruses in their natural habitat, as opposed to isolated frozen specimens.
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Researchers at Penn State have developed a new cell-sorting technique, opening the possibility that future medical analytical devices could be scaled-down to a size much smaller than is currently the case.
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ScienceScientists have copied the microstructure of the lotus leaf, to create a surface that could be used for manipulating tiny drops of fluid in diagnostic devices.
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A Canadian start-up is set to trial create mini lab that makes genetic testing easier and cheaper.
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Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a microdevice that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine.
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A prototype lab-on-a-chip device is able to count the number of sperm in an ejaculate sample, and can differentiate between those that are and are not motile.
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ScienceThe PhotonicLab Platform is the world’s first disposable lab-on-a-chip solution for on-site water and food analysis and chemical and biological agent detection.