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Scientists manipulate water droplets to create biochemical reactors

12 August 2021 | By Anna Begley (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have developed a new method that manipulates tiny water droplets in lab-on-chip applications for cell culturing and drug screening.

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Researchers 3D print rotating microfilter for lab-on-a-chip applications

16 June 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

A new magnetically driven rotary microfilter has been developed to filter particles inside a lab-on-a-chip microfluidic device.

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How microfluidics can automate drug discovery and development

17 May 2021 | By Dr Ruitao Su (University of Minnesota)

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a 3D spherical microfluidic device. Here, Dr Ruitao Su explains how the new device can be used in drug discovery and development.

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Microfluidic screening reveals SARS-CoV-2 antibody candidate

17 May 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

Microfluidic screening technologies have been used to discover a promising antibody candidate against SARS-CoV-2 and the South African variant.

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Product hub: Presenting the Fluidity One-W Serum

31 March 2021 | By Fluidic Analytics

Don’t miss the latest product hub from Fluidic Analytics, detailing the Fluidity One-W Serum which enables comprehensive profiling of protein-protein interactions, such as the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2, based on affinity – a crucial characteristic of protein interactions that traditional tests cannot easily quantify.

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Novel label-free assay developed to profile immune response to infection

26 March 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have created an immune assay that can profile host immune responses to infection and is faster than current methods.

3D rendering of pink villi with blue and green microbes - idea of microbiome of the human intestines

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Novel intestine model could accelerate the development of treatments

8 January 2021 | By Hannah Balfour (Drug Target Review)

The transparent millifluidic perfusion cassettes (mPCs) developed by researchers should allow for better evaluations of the interactions between the cells and invading pathogens.

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Expert view: Analytical power tool opens upstream bioprocessing bottlenecks for better antibody screening

8 September 2020 | By Hongshan Li (Marketing Applications Manager at FortéBio)

The Octet® systems provide broad applications in high throughput to help bispecific and multi-specific antibody discovery.

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Current state of NAFLD treatments and the promise of in vitro platforms towards better screening of drug candidates

4 June 2020 | By Aslihan Gokaltun (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children), Beyza Bulutoglu (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children), Camilo Rey-Bedón (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children), Martin L Yarmush (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children), Osman Berk Usta (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children), Peony Banik (Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children)

The heterogeneous pathogenesis of metabolic fatty liver diseases presents researchers with numerous challenges when trying to develop a treatment. This article explores the spectrum of these diseases and presents a novel in vitro platform for screening drug candidates.

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Application note: Monitoring of SMALP-nanodisc formation by microfluidic diffusional sizing

29 May 2020 | By Fluidic Analytics

Styrene–maleic acid (SMA) copolymers have become popular tools used in membraneprotein research as they can extract both lipids and membrane proteins from cellular membranes while preserving the bilayer structure of the membrane in so-called nanodiscs.

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Novel microfluidic and sequencing method enables epigenetic studies

19 May 2020 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

A new microfluidic technology has been developed which can profile histone modifications with as few as 100 cells per assay.

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Novel biocompatible microparticles can be created using heat and light

16 March 2020 | By Hannah Balfour (Drug Target Review)

Scientists have demonstrated an innovative technique for creating microparticles for tissue engineering out of a combination of disordered and partially ordered proteins.

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Developing an automatic microfluidic platform using ‘ferrobots’

9 March 2020 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

A new microfluidic technology has been developed by researchers, which utilises magnetic ferrobots to automate chemical analyses and assays.

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Microfluidics device to detect cancer cells in blood

26 February 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

A recently developed microfluidics device is able to detect and separate out cancer cells in blood, without the need for dilution...

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Application note: Rapidly isolate high-producing clones

21 December 2018 | By Sphere Fluidics Ltd.

Find out how to streamline Cell Line Development by identifying high-producing clones with monoclonality assurance in one day.

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