Lab on a Chip issue 8 now available online!

30 Mar 2011

This month’s issue features another great selection of articles, including a Focus article from Mathias Uhlen and Helene Andersson Svahn on affinity reagents for lab on a chip applications.

Featured on the outside front cover is the HOT article from William Rodriguez and Rashid Bashir et al., demonstrating a microfabricated biochip to determine the CD4+ T lymphocyte count in HIV patients.

A microfabricated electrical differential counter for the selective enumeration of CD4+ T lymphocytes
Nicholas N. Watkins, Supriya Sridhar, Xuanhong Cheng, Grace D. Chen, Mehmet Toner, William Rodriguez and Rashid Bashir

On the inside front cover we have Rodolphe Marie’s micro device that can isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells. This paper was recently featured in Chemistry World – you can read the story here.

A device for extraction, manipulation and stretching of DNA from single human chromosomes
Kristian H. Rasmussen, Rodolphe Marie, Jacob M. Lange, Winnie E. Svendsen, Anders Kristensen and Kalim U. Mir

Finally, the back cover highlights work from Gang Logan Liu, using a standard CD drive to count microparticles and cells with a digital microfluidic compact disc. This article was also recently highlighted in Chemistry World.