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Dear partner;
microLIQUID will be at the 2017 AACC Clinical Lab Expo this August 1-3 in San Diego, CA.
AACC is a global scientific and medical professional organization dedicated to clinical laboratory science and its application to healthcare. Their leadership in education, advocacy and collaboration helps lab professionals adapt to change and do what they do best: provide vital insight and guidance so patients get the care they need.
On behalf of our company, if you are attending to AACC, we want to take advantage to have a meeting with you in order to talk about our common interests.
We will be pleased to invite you to join our booth #630, where we will be showcasing our latest offerings and technologies, and we will have our top product experts on hand to answer your questions.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Advantages of using microfluidics for chemotaxis
Microfluidics: Chemotaxis and ADVANTAGES
it is known microfluidics nowadays is revolutionizing the way the motile behaviour of cells are studied.
It has enabled observations at high spatial and temporal resolution is carefully controlled microenvironments.
Taking into account both of the parts, chemotaxis and microfluidics, there are some advantages when using them two together:
– Presents experimental challenges that are not observed on chemotaxis studies of surface-adherent cells.
– Generate steady, arbitrarily shaped chemical gradients.
– Unique control over the chemoattractant gradient and the migration environment of cells.
– Provide spatial and temporal control over a reproducible chemical environment.
– Enables building well defined and stable chemical gradients at cellular length scales.
– Provide a platform for quantifying cellular responses at cellular and molecular levels.
Chemotaxis with Microfluidics: When an organism moves in response to a chemical stimulus it is said that Chemotaxis has happened
Microfluidics Application: Chemotaxis
When an organism moves in response to a chemical stimulus it is said that Chemotaxis has happened.
Due to some chemicals that are in the environment the organisms, such as Somatic cells, bacteria, single-cell or multicellular organisms, direct their movements.
When the chemotaxis movements occur toward a higher concentration of the chemical, it is said that is a positive movement.
On the contrary, when the movement is done in the opposite direction, toward the lowest concentration, it is said that is a negative movement.
In addition, if it is nondirectional or randomly directed, the chemotaxis will be called Chemokinesis.
Chemotaxis is done with two independent chemoattractants.
Even if they are independent, we can say that they are interrelated processes-motility and directionality and both of them are regulated by extracellular stimuli.
Advantages of using electrophoresis with Microfluidics
Electrophoresis using Microfluidics – Main Advantages
Advantages of using electrophoresis with Microfluidics:
1. Improved Diagnosis, simplified diagnostic procedures, faster treatment and results.
2. Simplicity; Fast and easy technique.
3. Low cost material.
4. Reliability.
Electrophoresis with microfluidics: an analytical method
Electrophoresis and Microfluidics
Electrophoresis is an analytical method which is applied for the separation and characterization of proteins, nucleic acids and subcellular-sized particles such as viruses and small organelles.
Its principle is that the charged particles of a sample migrate in an applied electrical field.
Electrophoresis of positively charged particles (cations) is called cataphoresis, and on the other hand, electrophoresis of negatively charged particles (anions) is called anaphoresis.
Electrophoresis is a technique used in laboratories to separate macromolecules based on size.
Flow Cytometer based on Microfluidics and the positive advantagesmicrofluidic microchannels
Flow Cytometry : Advantages of using Microfluidics
Positive aspects about Flow Cytometer based on Microfluidics:
1. To have a high purity and recovery for the sorted cell population.
2. To sort based on an intracellular characteristic in which magnetic beads would not have access.
3. To sort cell labelled with fluorescent probes for nuclear or other intracellular targets.
4. To have information about cell surface molecules.
5. To sort different receptors even if they are low in density.
6. To sort cells according to absence, density or presence of the receptors.
Flow cytometry is a laser-based technology used in cell counting, cell sorting, biomarker detection or protein engineering
Flow Cytometry using Microfluidics
Flow cytometry is a laser-based technology used in cell counting, cell sorting, biomarker detection or protein engineering.
By suspending cells and passing these suspending cells by passing them using an electronic detection machine, flow cytometry is done.
This technique allows making simultaneous analysis of the different characteristics of the more than a thousand particles per second.
This technique is usually used in the diagnosis of health disorders, in most of the cases blood cancers, but it is used in many medical trials, such as to sort particles according to their properties or purify populations of interest.
Organ on a chip in microfluidic, great advantages and results
Microfluidic Application: Organ-on-a-Chip
Advantages of Organ-on-a-chip with microfluidics:
1. 3-D tissue structures look like actual organ physiology.
2. They provide better simulation, which means it is more accurate.
3. For scientist, they can watch the chips in real time and in high resolution.
4. Early effectiveness and safety identification.
CNC Micromachining piece for Microfluidics: recent developments in microfabrication enables the integration of hard and soft structures
Microfluidic Manufacturing Technique: CNC Micromachining
CNC Micromachining is defined as the removal of material at micro level.
During the last year the interest over the micro machining technology has increased.
Due to this, every manufacturing and industry segment has started to work, segments such as aerospace, automotive world or medical appliances.
Even , nowadays, there are still several technical challenges the potential for product miniaturization continues to grow.
The micromachining technologies involves to work with features smaller than 0,001”, that is why, it is necessary to work with accuracy in the 0,0001” or less range, using always cutters smaller than 1/8 or about 3mm. It takes significant speed to effectively use such small-diameter tools, and the machines have to be, as said before, very accurate.
Taking into account the microfluidic field of technology, we can say that micromachining can be used in this field, because recent developments in microfabrication enables the integration of hard and soft structures, making possible to control the microfluidic systems structures. This structures can be applied to drug delivery.
Moreover, there is a manufacturing method which involves laser micromachining for the structure of microfluidic channels in a thin metallic sheet.
It is important to say that some polymers are better to use over silicone when building microfluidic devices because they have biocompatible properties as well as cheapness. Also, using micromachining it is possible to make fewer processing steps than using the conventional way.
microLIQUID in MEDICA 2016 : exploring opportunities in Health Care industry
Microfluidic Event in Germany
During three days in November, from 14 to 17 November, we have been part of the most important trade fair for In-Patient and out-patient Medicine in the city of Düsseldorf (Germany), MEDICA 2016.
Medica is the most attractive fair for the people who are working in the Health Care industry. There have been more than 130,000 visitors from over 120 countries, having the chance to take part in numerous special events, such as international conferences and forums.
Moreover Medica is the focus of the worldwide medical trade, and it has the largest and most comprehensive product display.
Microfluidics is a technology which has a big presence in the fair, as many of the solutions offered to the market in Diagnostics – IVD Market are based on it.
The trade fair we have been attending has more than 5.000 exhibitors from all around the world, with more than 19 halls on the exhibit area.
Furthermore, it is important to know that more than 500 of the exhibitors where from the United States of America and Canada.
Two members of our company have been attending the Medica world trade fair, having different meetings. As visitors, you are able to contact many companies in the Medical Device and Diagnostics in order to expand our business portfolio.
One idea, one design and engineering-to-production.
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