Bioengineers from UCLA and University of Tokyo have significantly increased the speed at which large liquid droplets, potentially containing individual live cells, can be sorted intact and in bulk.

Label-free droplet-based bacterial growth phenotype screening. Credit: Liu Yang Effective, accurate and quick ways to screen and sort microbes are in short supply. Most methods available now rely on ...

Our lab has developed a novel platform for droplet sorting that can be used to sort enzymes by activity, and cells by metabolism. It is a passive technique that utilizes no excitation laser, detector, ...

With droplet-based microfluidic systems, researchers can rapidly screen compound and reaction libraries. These systems often use fluorescent reporters to help sort out the compounds and reaction ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking, freely available droplet microfluidic component library, which promises to transform the way microfluidic devices are created. This innovation, based on ...

A new chip sorts individual living cells through open air along adjustable paths, offering a gentler and more flexible alternative to conventional methods. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Sorting individual ...

How do you find a single cell in a sea of thousands? You make it glow. Adding fluorescence helps track movement and changes in small things like cells, DNA, and bacteria. In a library of millions of ...

The infection of human immunology viruses (HIV) occurs by integrating its genome into infected cells to enter an inactive state of reversible latency that evades anti-retroviral therapy. The capacity ...

Understanding the deposition of micro- or nano-particles is central to designing innovative bioassays, biosensors, functional surfaces and ink-jet printing. An evaporating droplet containing colloidal ...

Effective, accurate and quick ways to screen and sort microbes are in short supply. Most methods available now rely on additional labeling steps to sort bacteria, which are typically time-consuming ...