Whether it is for analysis of food quality, food safety, or tissue-based diagnostics, isolating viable primary cells extracted from plant and animal tissues are essential for testing. Companies currently use manual means to dissociate tissues in order to extract these cells. A technician spends time preparing an organ by cutting the tissue with scissors. This is followed by 35 minute..
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A reduced channel height in microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) devices enables a reduction in the required volume of sample and reagents. LOC devices are most often manufactured by microstructuring a planar substrate and subsequently sealing it with a cover film. However, shallow chip designs, made from polymers, are sensitive to channel deformation during the sealing of the microfluidic device...
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Wouldn’t it be great to walk into your neighborhood pharmacy and find out what was making you ill in the time it took you to buy some cough drops? Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices have the potential to revolutionize health care by translating complex diagnostic assays into user-friendly platforms. An additional advantage of LOC is a reduction in the required volume of sample and reagents. This..
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-- Research Scientists discuss the development of a low-cost POC RT-PCR platform that accomplishes the detection of RNA pathogens (Ebola, Zika, Chikungunya virus). Rapid ID of Ebola for low resource areas -- A major challenge of diagnosing infectious diseases in low resource areas is a lack of fully equipped laboratories for quantitative detection of pathogens. Even in high resource areas such..
