A dielectrophoretic chip with a roughened metal surface for on-chip surface-enhanced Raman scattering analysis of bacteria. Biomicrofluidics , 2010; 4 (3): 034104 DOI: 10.1063/1.3474638 Cite This ...

A tiny electric field is applied to the specially designed microfluidic chip to separate the bacteria (a phenomenon known as dielectrophoresis). A roughened metal shelter in front of the trapping ...

"With the microfluidic chip we can also answer, how bacteria communicate with each other, how they respond to stress or whether the relationship of bacterial strains plays a role in adaptation ...

Atencia said the disposable chip allows for the separation of bacteria from an unenriched sample in less than an hour, according to a media release about the event. This is possible because the chip ...

To overcome the antibiotic-resistant bacteria, combinatory therapy using ... The team utilized a microfluidic chip with a sample volume of a few tens of microliters. This chip enabled 121 pairwise ...

Microfluidic chips that mimic the complex human cervical environment provide a platform to study the reproductive tract and associated infections like bacterial vaginosis. To create a cervix-on-a-chip ...

Microfluidics deals with the ... and fabricating the chips, and Pruden's group preparing the different bacterial cultures for characterizing their dielectrophoresis properties and benchmarking ...

A single fluorescing bacterial colony makes up what the research team calls a biopixel, hundreds or thousands of which can be incorporated into a microfluidic chip. Within this chip, gases emitted ...

"With the microfluidic chip we can also answer, how bacteria communicate with each other, how they respond to stress or whether the relationship of bacterial strains plays a role in adaptation ...

Washington, D.C. (September 14, 2010) -- A new "on-chip" method for sorting and identifying bacteria has been created by biomedical engineers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University.