Tag: lab-on-a-chip

Berkeley helps laid-off workers retool for new careers

QB3 helps local workers retool for new careers

August 13, 2012:

Laid-off workers are getting hands-on training in microfabrication at Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center through a collaborative technical-education initiative with Oakland’s Laney College.

NIH award funds project to develop organ-on-a-chip models for human disease

July 24, 2012:

Bioengineers at UC Berkeley are getting a two-year, $1.7 million boost to develop on-chip models of living human heart and liver tissue, the NIH announced today. The grant is part of the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program, an initiative to help predict the safety of drugs more quickly and cost-effectively, and thereby speed the development of effective therapeutics.

New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes

March 16, 2011:

A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external tubing or external components.