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Printing Microparticles for Drug Delivery
A startup emerging from Jennifer Lewis' lab intends to commercialize a technology platform that can produce microdroplets of highly viscous fluids, with applications in drug formulation and delivery. (Image courtesy of the Lewis Lab.)Droplet-based…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Jennifer Lewis
Selective deposition of cells in microwells
This invention is a method of selectively functionalizing indentations (such as wells or channels in microfluidic systems) or protrusions on a substrate such that, for example, cells selectively bind to the indentations or the protrusions. The…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- George Whitesides
- Emanuele Ostuni
- Christopher Chen
- Donald Ingber
Microfluidic arrays for multiplex detection of analyts
This invention is a microfluidic array apparatus and a method of performing multiple analyses on multiple samples simultaneously, utilizing nanoliter volumes of reagents. It has two embodiments, the first consists of N microfluidic channels, perhaps…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- George Whitesides
- Rustem Ismagilov
- Jessamine Lee
- Paul Kenis
- Xingyu Jiang
- Rosaria Ferrigno
New cell sorting technology could replace fluorescent and magnetic technologies
Dr. Prentiss’ lab has developed a new cell sorting technology based on microfluidics. This technique enables manipulation of non-magnetic micro- and nano-entities, including cells, immersed in magnetic fluids. Compared to existing MACS and FACS cell…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Mara Prentiss
- Pierre Striehl
- Howard Stone
- Efraim Feinstein
High-sensitivity, high-throughput biosensor capable of detecting biomarkers without external fluorescent labels
This invention describes a combination of technologies that produce a miniature optical biosensor array which is capable of detecting biomarkers without requiring external fluorescent labels. This label-free approach uses a sample placed in a…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Frank Vollmer
- Qimin Quan
- Marko Loncar
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Marko Loncar
- Qimin Quan
Liquid color: Flexible, angle-independent structural color from microdroplets
This invention uses microdroplets with particle arrays (“photonic balls”) to achieve angle-independent structural color. When incident light is reflected off the disordered arrangement of scattering centers in the microdroplets, only certain…
Investigators
- Vinothan Manoharan
- Sofia Magkiriadou
- Jin-Gyu Park