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Summary Vanderbilt researchers have created a new multi-organs-on-chip platform that comprises Perfusion Control systems, MicroFormulators, and MicroClinical Analyzers connected via fluidic networks. The real-time combination of multiple different solutions to create customized perfusion media and the analysis of the effluents from each well are both...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices, Microfluidics, Research Tools, Diagnostics

Modular and Stackable Microfluidic Devices

SummaryVanderbilt researchers have invented a modular microfluidic bioreactor that can be layered and stacked to create complex organ-on-chip systems that mimic the behavior of human organ systems such as the neurovascular unit. This modular device can also be assembled from separate, functioning biolayers, and at the end of a study disassembled for...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Microfluidics

Organ-on-a-Chip System

SummaryVanderbilt researchers have developed a group of microfluidic organ-on-chip devices that include perfusion controllers, microclinical analyzers, microformulators, and integrated microfluidic measurement chips. Together, these devices can measure and control multiple organ-on-chip systems in order to model the multi-organ physiology of humans.Addressed...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Microfluidics

Low-cost, Normally Closed Microfluidic Valve

SummaryVanderbilt researchers have developed a normally closed valve that is able to provide selective movement of small fluid quantities in a microfluidic device. The present microfluidic valve can be actuated using a simple rotating drivehead and mechanical support, greatly simplifying the valve design.Addressed NeedMicrofluidics is a rapidly growing...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Diagnostics, Microfluidics

I-Wire: A Biotension Measurement Device for Tissue Engineering and Pharmacology

Summary Vanderbilt researchers have developed an integrated system (“I-Wire”) for the growth of miniature, engineered 3D cardiac or other muscle or connective tissues and their active and passive mechanical characterization. The system utilizes an inverted microscope to measure the strain when the tissue constructs are laterally displaced...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Diagnostics, Microfluidics

Rotary Planar Peristaltic Micropump (RPPM) and Rotary Planar Valve (RPV) for Microfluidic Systems

SummaryA Vanderbilt University research team led by Professor John Wikswo has developed low-cost, small-volume, metering peristaltic micropumps and microvalves. These pumps and valves can be used either as stand-alone devices incorporated into microfluidic subsystems, or as readily customized components for research or miniaturized point-of-care instruments,...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s): Parker Gould, Lloyd (Loi) Hoang, William Matloff, Kevin Seale, John Wikswo, Jr., Joseph Scherrer

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Category(s): Microfluidics, Medical Devices