Multichannel Device can Measure More Cells at Once

Sep-11-16 A new microfluidic device able to quickly measure the size of passing cells could help speed the process of developing and selecting antibiotics.

The device, from a team at MIT, improves on the standard process that uses suspended microchannel resonators (SMR) to measure the size of passing cells. However, whereas the conventional process could only measure one cell at a time, the new system features a system of “delay channels” that gives the cells time to grow before they are moved to the next sensor for measuring. This new process allows for many cells to be accurately measured at one time, showing whether they have grown or gotten smaller.

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