MEMSuniverse » blood http://www.memsuniverse.com A Passion for Creativity & Innovation Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:57:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Searching for New Treatments for Pediatric Cancer – Childrens Hospital Los Angeles http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/searching-for-new-treatments-for-pediatric-cancer-childrens-hospital-los-angeles.html http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/searching-for-new-treatments-for-pediatric-cancer-childrens-hospital-los-angeles.html#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 23:29:41 +0000 admin http://www.memsuniverse.com/?p=1620 Dr. Timothy Triche and his team at The Saban Research Institute at our hospital are working to find better and safer treatments for children with cancer. His team is developing nanotechnology in order to deliver targeted chemotherapy payloads directly to the cancer cells, leaving the healthy cells in tact.

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]]> http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/searching-for-new-treatments-for-pediatric-cancer-childrens-hospital-los-angeles.html/feed 0 Respirocytes: An Artificial Red Blood Cell Replacement http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/respirocytes-an-artificial-red-blood-cell-replacement.html http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/respirocytes-an-artificial-red-blood-cell-replacement.html#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:21:59 +0000 admin http://www.memsuniverse.com/?p=431 Animation of a respirocyte (an artificial red blood cell) being injected into the bloodstream.

We created the animation for the PBS / Devillier Donegan production “Beyond Human.”
It has gone on to win the IMM Computational Nanotechnology Prize (Simulation), has appeared in lectures
by AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil and nanotechnology pioneers Robert Freitas, David Forrest and Ralph Merckle,
and was recently included in BBC2 Horizon’s nanotechnology programme “The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schoen.”

http://www.phleschbubble.com/album/respirocyte01.htm

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]]> http://www.memsuniverse.com/nanotechnology/respirocytes-an-artificial-red-blood-cell-replacement.html/feed 13 Electrohydrodynamically-driven blood plasma separation http://www.memsuniverse.com/microfluidics/electrohydrodynamically-driven-blood-plasma-separation.html http://www.memsuniverse.com/microfluidics/electrohydrodynamically-driven-blood-plasma-separation.html#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:27:59 +0000 admin http://www.memsuniverse.com/?p=58 Ionic or corona wind generated by applying a voltage to a sharp needle tip is used to shear the surface of a liquid housed in a tiny microfluidic chamber about 8 mm in diameter and 4 mm deep. These surface vortices induce a secondary spiral or tornado-like flow. Particles suspended in the fluid, in this case, red blood cells in blood plasma, spiral downwards to a bottom stagnation point in much the same way that tea leaves in a stirred tea cup ac ulate in the center at the base of the cup. This is exploited to perform microfluidic blood plasma separation in under 300 seconds without sample contact or mechanically moving parts. The technology is therefore useful for the development of miniaturised medical diagnostic kits. References: Yeo et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 103516, 2006; Arifin et al., Biomicrofluidics 1, 014103, 2007. Press releases: ‘Stirring things apart’, The Economist, 20 Jan. 2007.

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