{"id":204907,"date":"2025-01-30T04:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/droplet-microfluidics-advance-may-hold-key-to-next-generation-cancer-drugs"},"modified":"2025-01-30T04:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:42:56","slug":"droplet-microfluidics-advance-may-hold-key-to-next-generation-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/droplet-microfluidics-advance-may-hold-key-to-next-generation-cancer-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Droplet microfluidics advance may hold key to next-generation cancer drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/droplet-microfluidics-advance-may-hold-key-to-next-generation-cancer-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Texas A&amp;M University, one research lab is changing the game of droplet microfluidics, a technique that involves conducting experiments in nanoscale droplets of liquid in a controlled environment. The team has developed a system that makes droplet microfluidics faster, lower cost, and more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Arum Han, the Texas Instruments Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his lab associates created a technology named NOVAsort (Next-generation Opto-Volume-based Accurate droplet sorter), a system that allows high throughput screening of molecules and cells at significantly reduced error rates.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas previous research has focused on increasing the speed of assays (a type of laboratory test), the team\u2019s findings, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-52932-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, are among the first to significantly improve accuracy without compromising the speed of assays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Texas A&amp;M University, one research lab is changing the game of droplet microfluidics, a technique that involves conducting experiments in nanoscale droplets of liquid in a controlled environment. The team has developed a system that makes droplet microfluidics faster, lower cost, and more accurate. Dr. Arum Han, the Texas Instruments Professor in the Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}