The deadline is fast approaching for Lab on a Chip‘s Emerging Investigators themed issue, guested edited by Professors Amy Herr and Aaron Wheeler.
If you plan to submit an article, we advise you to read our guidelines for authors prior to submission. Submissions should be made through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lc, noting in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ that the article is intended for the Emerging Investigators 2012 themed issue.
Please note that the submission deadline for this issue is extremely strict to tie in with the microTAS conference in October this year, therefore articles submitted after the 30th April deadline may not be included in the themed issue. Submissions before this date are welcomed.
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Gabriel Loget and Alexander Kuhn report for the first time the vertical propulsion of conducting beads in liquid filled capillaries by bipolar electrochemistry. Using a conical capillary a Yo-Yo type motion can be induced, making the concept then useful for cargo-lifting and of potential interest for microfluidic applications in lab-on-a-chip devices.
Philip LeDuc and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University report the development of a minimal-profile, three-dimensional (MP3D) experimental microdevice which confines cells to a single focal plane, allowing observation with conventional epifluorescent microscopy.
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Siva Vanapalli and colleagues at Texas Tech University have developed a one-step passive strategy to create concentration gradients in static droplet arrays. Their recent Lab on a Chip article has been reported in PhysOrg.com, which discusses the implications of the technology for the future of drug testing.
Samuel Stavis and colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale fluidic channel shaped like a staircase, which can be used to control the direction of drift of a DNA molecule through a fluid. An article in Nanotechnology Now discusses how this ‘nanoslinky’ presents new possibilities for manipulating and measuring DNA.