Lab on a chip (LOC) devices - microchip-size systems that can prepare and analyze tiny fluid samples with volumes ranging from a few microliters (millionth of a liter) to sub-nanoliters (less than a billionth of a liter) - are envisioned to one day revolutionize how laboratory tasks such as...
For the past decade a small group of device development companies, often supported by academic partners and national government technology transfer programs, have been attempting to commercialize drug delivery products based on arrays of microneedles. By creating channels in the stratum corneum...
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) has announced $600,000 in awards to four Washington state-based research teams to support commercial development of health-related technologies. The funded projects will concentrate on improving the success rate of lumbar punctures (spinal taps) in...