#microfluidic chip

New Test Diagnoses Lyme Disease Within 15 Minutes

Some 300,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year. Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks, the disease if left untreated can cause serious neurologic, cardiac, and/or rheumatologic complications.

Current testing for Lyme disease, called the standard 2-tiered approach or the STT, involves running two complex assays (ELISA and…

Growing Embryonic Tissues on a Chip

Researchers at EPFL have developed a method to stimulate human stem cells to organize themselves into ordered layers of different cell types. Published in Nature Methods, the method is based on microfluidics and can help better understand how tissues are formed in the embryo, setting the stage for fabricating functional tissues and organs for drug testing and transplantation.

It’s no surprise…

Revolutionary little chip uses sound to detect cancer cells

Revolutionary little chip uses sound to detect cancer cells

Sound may become the go-to tool for detecting cancer cells in the future. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University have developed a “microfluidic chip” that can separate white blood cells from circulating tumor cel...