Updates: We can now put the glass on top of the mask, which allows the use of nonstick agents in the creation of PEG microarrays. The ability to cross-link PEG-Diacrylate (PEG-DA) with a photoinitator and UV exposure was previously tested and…

Yuchen and I have been tasked with integrating TEER electrodes into the Cytovu format. The general idea was to fabricate the TEER electrodes similarly to what I have done already, then add them to the current Cytovu device, using UV…

On Friday Josh and I assembled  Sepcon chips with calculated porosity of ~6.5 %, and avg. pore diameter of ~40 nm into Sepcons.   I was able to pass 40nm gold through the pores (we don’t have any gold larger than that).  Note…

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http://phys.org/news/2013-03-temp-controlled-nanopores-blood-analysis.html

The NRG website downtime you’ve suffered in recent weeks is paying dividends.  Most of this has been in operation for a while, but in case you haven’t noticed here is the first round of changes we’ve rolled out … Sharing…

Links and Papers: Article with video Lung on a Chip Device Paper Lung on a Chip Application (Pulmonary Edema)   Chris came across the publicity video last week and Jim asked me to look into the specifics. It’s a pretty nifty…

This week I tried looking into several different ways of detecting the elusive Barcikowski Peptide. We discovered that Coomassie staining does not work, both because of the size of the peptide (it only works on proteins with a MW >…