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Takeaways from the 2011 Wyss Institute Microfluidics & Medicine Symposium (part 1)

Last month I attended the Wyss Institute’s Symposium on Microfluidics and Medicine, a fantastic gathering of some of the most influential people in microfluidics from around the world. While many speakers were from academia, it was different from a typical academic conference because (in the spirit of the new Wyss Insitute) the focus was on how microfluidics could be launched [...]

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Microfluidics and technology decentralization

I’m currently reading Daniel Pink’s Free Agent Nation, which discusses how the availability of technology has enabled people to do certain types of work (e.g. software development, graphic design) from their homes as part of a modern cottage industry.  It got me thinking about how microfluidics may contribute to technology decentralization, shifting technology resources from [...]

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Claros Diagnostics in Tech Review

Claros Diagnostics, who spoke at the first FluidicMEMS event, is on a roll. In the past few weeks their microfluidic technology for monitoring levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been covered in both Technology Review and Popular Science (April 2010 issue). From the Technology Review article (March 31, 2010): Claros’s technology, which consists of [...]

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