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Neuro Chip Records Brain Cell Activity

Oct. 26, 2016 — Brain functions are controlled by millions of brain cells. However, in order to understand how the brain controls functions, such as simple reflexes or learning and memory, we must be able to record ... read more

3D-Printed Organ-on-a-Chip With Integrated Sensors

Oct. 24, 2016 — The first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip has now been created with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed ... read more

Team Finds Order in a Process Previously Assumed to Be Random

Oct. 17, 2016 — Scientific discoveries often arise from noticing the unexpected. Such was the case when researchers, studying a tiny device that has become increasingly important in disease diagnostics and drug ... read more

Diamonds Make a Device Cooler

Oct. 12, 2016 — A layer of diamond can prevent high-power electronic devices from overheating. This becomes particularly important in devices made from gallium nitride. Now a team of ... read more

Small Droplets Feel the Vibe

Oct. 6, 2016 — A team of researchers have used ultrasonic forces to accurately pattern thousands of microscopic water-based droplets. Each droplet can be designed to perform a biochemical ... read more

Fast Lab-on-Chip Detects Effects of Poison

Oct. 4, 2016 — A new lab-on-a-chip system is capable of fast analysis of the effects of toxic substances on hemoglobin, for example. It mimicks ... read more

Cost for Surface Patterning Plastics Lowered

Sep. 15, 2016 — A new way to simultaneously shape and surface treat plastic components has been developed by researchers. The new method can reduce the manufacturing cost of medical devices, such as diagnostic tools ... read more

New Optofluidic Platform Features Tunable Optics and Novel 'Lightvalves'

Sep. 14, 2016 — Novel technology combines high-performance microfluidics for sample processing with dynamic optical tuning and switching, all on a low-cost "chip" made of a flexible ... read more

Complex Materials Can Self-Organize Into Circuits, May Form Basis for Multifunction Chips

Sep. 14, 2016 — Researchers studying the behavior of nanoscale materials have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today’s ... read more

Novel Nanoscale Detection of Real-Time DNA Amplification Holds Promise for Diagnostics

Sep. 7, 2016 — A novel label-free method of measuring DNA amplification in real time has now been developed by researchers. The technique detects changes in the ... read more

Slimy Hagfish Inspire 'super Hydrogels'

Are Tiny Homes for You? A Chance to Try It Out

To Curb Huge Housing Shortage, NY Turns to 'micro-Apartments'

Wind Tree Uses Micro-Turbine Leaves to Generate Electricity

Multi-Function Chip Developed to Enable Next Generation Implantable Device Innovations

Oct. 6, 2016 — The development of novel integrated circuits for next generation implantable medical devices has now been advanced, according to an international team of ... read more

Lab-on-a-Stick: Miniaturized Clinical Testing for Fast Detection of Antibiotic Resistance

Aug. 23, 2016 — A portable power-free test for the rapid detection of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been developed ... read more

X-Ray Optics on a Chip

Aug. 18, 2016 — Waveguides are widely used for filtering, confining, guiding, coupling or splitting beams of visible light. However, creating waveguides that could do the same for X-rays has posed tremendous ... read more

Five Ways Bioengineers Want to Use 3-D Printing

Aug. 11, 2016 — Now that 3-D printing has made it easier to generate custom-made prosthetics, bioengineers are looking ahead at manufacturing actual cellular material. Such technology could be the basis for ... read more

DNA Dominoes on a Chip

Aug. 9, 2016 — Normally, individual molecules of genetic material repel each other. However, when space is limited DNA molecules must be packed together more tightly. This case arises in sperm, cell nuclei and the ... read more

Ultracompact Photodetector

Aug. 2, 2016 — Data traffic is growing worldwide. Glass-fiber cables transmit information over long distances at the speed of light. Once they have reached their destination, however, these optical signals have to ... read more

Asymmetrical Magnetic Microbeads Transform Into Micro-Robots

July 26, 2016 — Janus particles are asymmetrical microscopic spheres with both a magnetic and a non-magnetic half. A new study reveals that the dynamics of such assemblies can be predicted by modelling the ... read more

Placenta-on-a-Chip

July 25, 2016 — Researchers have developed the first placenta-on-a-chip that can fully model the transport of nutrients across the placental barrier. The flash-drive-sized device contains two layers of human cells ... read more

Integration of Novel Materials With Silicon Chips Makes New 'Smart' Devices Possible

July 21, 2016 — Materials researchers have developed a way to integrate novel functional materials onto a computer chip, allowing the creation of new smart devices and ... read more

Adipose Analysis on Microfluidic Chips

July 13, 2016 — Scientists have developed a microfluidic chip where more than one hundred apidose-derived adult stem cell cultures can grow and divide. In the human body, adipose tissue acts as a primary energy ... read more

Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing, Implantable Devices

July 11, 2016 — A new type of tissue chip has been created that can be more widely used for drug testing. Engineering the chips as a silk gel circumvents many of the problems with existing devices and could ... read more

Gelatin Instead of the Gym to Grow Stronger Muscles

July 1, 2016 — Scientists have devised a way to develop bigger, stronger muscle fibers. But instead of popping up on the bicep of a bodybuilder, these muscles grow on a tiny scaffold or 'chip' molded from ... read more

3D Brain-on-a-Chip

June 23, 2016 — To study brain cell’s operation and test the effect of medication on individual cells, the conventional Petri dish with flat electrodes is not sufficient. For truly realistic studies, cells have to ... read more

Lasers Carve the Path to Tissue Engineering

June 23, 2016 — A new technique combines microfluidics and lasers to guide cells in 3-D space, overcoming major limitations to tissue ... read more

Engineers Develop a New Biosensor Chip for Detecting DNA Mutations

June 14, 2016 — An electrical graphene chip capable of detecting mutations in DNA has been developed by engineers. The researchers say the technology could one day be used in various medical applications such as ... read more

Scientists Amplify Light Using Sound on a Silicon Chip

June 13, 2016 — Scientists have found a way to greatly boost the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip using the power of sound. In a new article, a research team describes a new waveguide system that ... read more

New Approach to Microlasers

June 13, 2016 — Researchers describe a new way to build terahertz lasers that could significantly reduce their power consumption and size, while also enabling them to emit tighter beams, a crucial requirement for ... read more

Novel Energy Inside a Microcircuit Chip

June 8, 2016 — Scientists have developed an extremely efficient small-size energy storage, a micro-supercapacitor, which can be integrated directly inside a silicon microcircuit ... read more

An Unusual Silicon-Rich Alloy Offers Enhanced Channeling of Light for Optical Computer Chips

June 6, 2016 — To improve the efficiency of waveguides -- devices that guide light on the surface of silicon optical computer chips -- a complex balance must be struck. The need for enhanced optical signal ... read more

Tiny Lasers Enable Next-Gen Microprocessors to Run Faster, Less Power-Hungry

June 2, 2016 — Tiny high-performance lasers grown directly on silicon wafers solve a decades-old semiconductor industry challenge that, until now, has held back the integration of photonics with electronics on the ... read more

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