Festo is taking over the production systems and processes from Carville

Festo Expands its Portfolio with Multilayer Manifolds

26-Jun-2024 - Festo is expanding its portfolio to include multilayer manifolds made of plastic (bonded manifolds) in order to be able to offer manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment solutions from a single source. To this end, Festo is taking over the production systems and processes for ...

An intestinal chip model takes research of fungal infections to a new level

Successful cooperation between science, clinic and start-up

25-Mar-2024 - The Jena-based biotech company Dynamic42 has developed an intestine-on-chip candidiasis model that allows for the quantification of the infection process. By combining microbiological and image-based analyses, the pathogen-host interactions can be analyzed much more precisely than is possible ...

Scientists deliver portable total chemical analysis without pumps and tubes

The portability of the new device enables bedside, quantitative clinical analysis or environmental analysis in the field

27-Feb-2024 - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a new micro total analysis system that quantifies a target chemical in a microfluidic chip without pumps, tubes, and expensive detectors. The compound reacts with other chemicals to produce a gas, pushing ink in a connected chamber ...

The little things matter: Chemists develop new sensor for microvolume pH detection

New environmentally friendly, durable pH sensor is sensitive enough to accurately measure pH variation in just a few microliters of samples

07-Nov-2023 - Measuring the pH of substances gives us vital clues about the world around us, such as identifying contaminated water or checking the toxicity of medical or cosmetic products. Often, only small amounts of samples are available, but monitoring the variation in pH in these miniscule volumes ...

Paper-based device developed for rapid diagnosis of lung diseases

CSIC researchers have coordinated the design of an instrument that combines paper microfluidics and electrochemical transduction.

03-Aug-2023 - A device that combines microfluidics on paper, electrochemical transduction and immunoassays on magnetic nanoparticles is capable of detecting biomarkers of inflammation in sputum samples, useful for the easy and rapid diagnosis of lung diseases. The research is coordinated by the Institute of ...

Accurate rapid tests made from smart graphene paper

The potential range of applications covers virtually all chemical, biological and medical analyses that can be performed in aqueous solutions

29-Mar-2023 - A team led by ETH Zurich chemical engineers Chih-​Jen Shih and Andrew deMello have developed a rapid test system made of smart graphene paper. It only costs a few cents per test strip, is easy to use but is as accurate as lab measurements. The approach will impact more than just disease ...

INTEGRA Biosciences acquires start-up Miroculus to accelerate genomics

20-Mar-2023 - INTEGRA Biosciences announced that it has acquired Miroculus, a biotechnology specialist focused on developing hands-off automation solutions for next generation sequencing (NGS) protocols. This will allow INTEGRA to expand its product range for library preparation, offering significant time ...

SARS-CoV-2 detection in 30 minutes using gene scissors

Researchers introduce biosensor for the nucleic acid amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

28-Nov-2022 - CRISPR-Cas is versatile: Besides the controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs), created through gene editing, various new scientific studies use different orthologues of the effector protein ‘Cas’ to detect nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA. In its most recent study, the research group ...

Drug Testing with Artificial Brain Vessels

Screening method simulates filter effect of the “blood-brain barrier”

05-Sep-2022 - In the journal “Biomaterials”, DZNE researchers present a novel method for testing chemical agents that could help in the development of drugs against neurodegenerative diseases. This analytical technique allows to study in the laboratory whether new drug candidates have a realistic chance of ...

New process revolutionizes microfluidic fabrication

Structural color printing creates new pathways for medical diagnostics and miniaturized sensors

26-May-2022 - Microfluidic devices use tiny spaces to manipulate very small quantities of liquids and gasses by taking advantage of the properties they exhibit at the microscale. They have demonstrated usefulness in applications from inkjet printing to chemical analysis and have great potential in personal ...