blood – TechConnect Briefs

Point-of-Care (POC) Micro Biochip for Cancer Diagnostics

Nunna B.B., Lee E-S, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US

American cancer society stated that a total of 1,685,210 new cancer diagnosed cases out of which 595,690 deaths from cancer are expected to be reported in the United States of America in 2016. Unfortunately Cancer [...]

Micro-particle Electrical Conduction through Human Blood

Abdalla S., Al-Ghamdi A.A., Marzouki F., King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, SA

The electric properties of human blood is vital. This is normal because this viable fluid have huge quantity of unexplored domains about its properties. For example, only few authors have examined the correlation between the [...]

New High Conductance DEP Devices for Detection of Cancer Related DNA Nanoparticulate Biomarkers and Nanoparticles in Whole Blood

Heller M.J., Sonnenberg A., University of California San Diego, US

The ability to rapidly detect cell free circulating (cfc) DNA nanoparticulate biomarkers, drug delivery nanoparticles and virus directly from blood is a major challenge for nanomedicine. We have now developed unique, simple and practical high [...]

Ultra-Structural Analysis of the Interaction of Carboxylated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Human Blood Platelets

Lacerda S.H., Semberova. J., Holada. K., Simakova O., Gelderman-Fuhrmann M.P., Simak J., Simakova O., FDA, US

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a promising new class of materials with many potential biomedical applications. CNTs have profound impact on the development of diagnostic biosensors, drug delivery nanosystems, imaging nanoprobes for intravascular use or other [...]

Nanoplex(TM) Biotags: Near-IR Excited, Highly Multiplexed Nanoparticulate Optical Detection Tags for Diagnostic Assays

Penn S., Cromer R., Sha M., Doering B., Brown B., Norton S., Walton I., Oxonica Inc, US

Oxonica Inc has developed a novel optical detection tag for use in point of care diagnostics, cellular imaging assays, and life science assays. Nanoplex(TM) Biotags are silica coated Au nanoparticles that, by virtue of surface [...]

Blood dynamics in microfabricated vessel networks

Mulivor A.W., Shevkoplyas S., Sun C., Bitensky M.W., Munn L.L., Massachusetts General Hospital, US

Blood displays interesting behavior when flowing through channels with dimensions similar to the blood cells. Two well-known examples include the decrease in flow resistance with tube size (Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect) and the enhancement of leukocyte (WBC) [...]

Modeling of Blood Flow in Simple Microchannels

Trebotich D., Chang W., Liepmann D., University of California-Berkeley, US

Optimal design of medical micro-assay systems will require computational modeling capabilities. Most existing models are based on macroscale experiments with smallest length dimensions comparable to that of a capillary due to the fact that the [...]