Researchers have created a new method of creating lab-on-a-chip devices, using store-bought wax paper.

Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices ( PADs) have gained a lot of attention for their attractive features owing to the use of paper as a substrate, such as being low-cost, easily and safely ...

Paper could lead to low-cost innovative devices and applications is lab-on-a-chip technology. In new work, researchers in Korea have, for the first time, used paper as a platform material for actively ...

A microfluidic device in paper: the "Africa" pattern is placed over photoresist-soaked paper. Where exposed to sunlight, the resist becomes impermeable, leaving a network of channels Simply ...

A research group has developed a technology for mass-producing uniform artificial cells (lipid bilayer vesicles) with artificial model nuclei using microfluidic devices with high reproducibility.

By transporting stem cell clusters through a micro-scale, spiral-shaped device, researchers can safely isolate single stem cells.

Over the past two decades, microfluidic devices, which use technology to produce micrometer-sized droplets, have become crucial to various applications.