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Lab on a Chip in C&EN!

31 Aug 2011

A Lab on a Chip paper from Aaron Wheeler and coworkers at the University of Toronto has featured in the magazine Chemical & Engineering News – New Method Is Spot On.

The article describes the application of microfluidic techniques to the analysis of dried blood spot samples – read the original paper here:

A digital microfluidic method for dried blood spot analysis
Mais J. Jebrail, Hao Yang, Jared M. Mudrik, Nelson M. Lafrenière, Christine McRoberts, Osama Y. Al-Dirbashi, Lawrence Fisher, Pranesh Chakraborty and Aaron R. Wheeler
Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20524B

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Lab on a Chip paper on artificial lung in the press

28 Jul 2011

Joseph Potkay‘s recently published Lab on a Chip paper on an artificial lung capable of using air rather than pure oxygen has been causing quite a stir! The article which describes the efficient lung mimic has been picked up by media outlets around the world:

New artificial lung breathes like a real one

New bioinspired artificial lung is efficient enough to operate on air

Researchers create artificial lung that works with air rather than pure oxygen

A New Artificial Lung Can Breathe Regular Air Rather Than Purified Oxygen

Artificial lungs to work sans oxygen

For the full details of this exciting new technology why not take a look at the paper:

Bio-inspired, efficient, artificial lung employing air as the ventilating gas
Joseph A. Potkay, Michael Magnetta, Abigail Vinson and Brian Cmolik
Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20020H

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Lab on a Chip 2010 Impact Factor released

30 Jun 2011

Lab on a Chip is delighted to announce a 2010 Impact Factor of 6.26, demonstrating the community support for Lab on a Chip as their journal of choice for miniaturisation at the micro and nanoscale, for both fundamental and applications-based research.

Our thanks to all of our Editorial and Advisory Board members, authors and referees.

View the RSC Publishing blog for important news on the overall RSC Impact Factor performance.

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Hybrid opto-electric manipulation, droplet based microfluidics and digital PCR on the cover of issue 13!

15 Jun 2011

The striking image on the outside front cover of this issue is courtesy of Aloke Kumar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). The Critical Review which it highlights discusses the fundamentals, applications and future of hybrid opto-electric manipulation techniques for microfluidics

Hybrid opto-electric manipulation in microfluidics—opportunities and challenges
Aloke Kumar, Stuart J. Williams, Han-Sheng Chuang, Nicolas G. Green and Steven T. Wereley
Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 2135-2148
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20208A

The equally eye-catching image on the inside front cover is from Valérie Taly and Andrew D. Griffiths (ISIS, Strasbourg) et al., accompanying work on a droplet-based microfluidics method for digital PCR and a method for multiplexing quantitative digital PCR beyond the conventional limitations of color-encoded probes.

Quantitative and sensitive detection of rare mutations using droplet-based microfluidics
Deniz Pekin, Yousr Skhiri, Jean-Christophe Baret, Delphine Le Corre, Linas Mazutis, Chaouki Ben Salem, Florian Millot, Abdeslam El Harrak, J. Brian Hutchison, Jonathan W. Larson, Darren R. Link, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Andrew D. Griffiths and Valérie Taly
Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 2156-2166
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20128J

Multiplex digital PCR: breaking the one target per color barrier of quantitative PCR
Qun Zhong, Smiti Bhattacharya, Steven Kotsopoulos, Jeff Olson, Valérie Taly, Andrew D. Griffiths, Darren R. Link and Jonathan W. Larson
Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 2167-2174
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20126C

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LOC author selected for Priestley Medal

13 Jun 2011

Robert Langer has been named as the 2012 recipient of the ACS Priestley Medal. Robert Langer, MIT, is being recognised for his ‘cutting-edge research that helped create the controlled-release drug industry and the field of tissue engineering’.

Congratulations to Professor Langer on this prestigious award!

You can view his latest LOC paper online here

Stimuli-responsive microwells for formation and retrieval of cell aggregates
Halil Tekin, Michael Anaya, Mark D. Brigham, Claire Nauman, Robert Langer and Ali Khademhosseini
Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 2411-2418
DOI: 10.1039/C004732E

Or his recent mini-review for Chemical Science:

Biocompatibility and drug delivery systems
Daniel S. Kohane and Robert Langer
Chem. Sci., 2010, 1, 441-446
DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00203H

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LOC article on brain cell networks in the press!

06 Jun 2011

The recent LOC article from Henry Zeringue (University of Pittsburgh) and team has been highlighted on ScienceDaily. The article describes the creation of a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, to help understand the mechanisms behind persistent activity – which is involved in memory and motor planning.

Congratulations to Henry Zeringue and team!

You can read Carl Saxton’s Chemistry World article online here or go straight to the Lab on a Chip paper:

Ring-shaped neuronal networks: a platform to study persistent activity
Ashwin Vishwanathan, Guo-Qiang Bi and Henry C. Zeringue,
Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 1081
DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00450b

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Issue 12 now available online – focussing on Dutch research

03 Jun 2011

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This month’s issue is the next instalment in our series of 10th anniversary issues, this time focussing on the best new research from the Netherlands. Sabeth Verpoorte introduces the issue in her Editorial, describing the progression from macro- to microfluidics in this small, but scientifically strong country.

The issue features work on floating electrodes from Albert van den Berg, artificial cilia from P. R. Onck and J. Westerweel, capillary Stokes drift from Dirk van den Ende, microbubble generation from José Gordillo, two-phase flow systems from Sabeth Verpoorte and micromolding from Michiel Kreutzer.

The issue also features HOT articles from Ryan Bailey, Masaya Hagiwara and Daniel Chiu:

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Animated abstracts for LOC!

26 May 2011

Check out the shiny new animated abstracts from our authors!

Got a cool piece of animation for your paper? Why not submit it to us today at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lc


Pneumatically tunable optofluidic 2 × 2 switch for reconfigurable optical circuit Wuzhou Song and Demetri Psaltis Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20220K	Measuring the local pressure amplitude in microchannel acoustophoresis Rune Barnkob, Per Augustsson, Thomas Laurell and Henrik Bruus Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 563-570 DOI: 10.1039/B920376A

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Issue 11 now online – 10th anniversary issue Singapore

19 May 2011

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As part of our 10th anniversary series we are delighted to publish this issue which includes a collection of articles focussed on lab on a chip research in Singapore.

Read guest editor Ai-Qun Liu‘s editorial, which introduces this themed issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Zhao-Lun Fang, formerly of the Zhe Jiang University, and check out the author profiles from Yi-Chin Toh, Tae Goo Kang, Danny van Noort, Bill Burkholder and Jing Bo Zhang.

The issue also includes plenty of regular content, and a HOT article on the inside front cover from Claire Wilhelm and Nicole Pamme on cell sorting by endocytotic capacity in a microfluidic magnetophoresis device.

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LOC paper wins Corning’s 2010 Outstanding Publication Award

09 May 2011

Congratulations to Po Ki Yuen and Roland Faris (Corning Inc.) et al., whose recent Lab on a Chip paper won Corning’s Outstanding Publication Award, 2010.

The prize is awarded annually to recognise an exemplary published paper for its impact on advancing science and technology in areas relevant to Corning’s strategic focus and expanding commercial opportunities for Corning.

The paper also featured on the cover of Issue 24 – why not take a look, we’ve made it free to access for 2 weeks:

Perfusion-based microfluidic device for three-dimensional dynamic primary human hepatocyte cell culture in the absence of biological or synthetic matrices or coagulants
Vasiliy N. Goral, Yi-Cheng Hsieh, Odessa N. Petzold, Jeffery S. Clark, Po Ki Yuen and Ronald A. Faris
Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 3380-3386
DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00135J

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