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Biophysics and Microfluidics
Rapid Malaria Diagnosis
Kong Tian Fook, Marcos, Nguyen Nam Trung
We developed a malaria diagnosis technique which combined microfluidics separation of malaria infected red blood cells (iRBCs) with magnetic resonance relaxometry (MRR) system. The iRBCs are separated from the uninfected healthy red blood cells (hRBCs) through a phenomenon known as margination...
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Cell Motility In Flow
Tran Duc Quang, David Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Marcos
Metastasis is known to be the main cause of death in cancer, which is one of the most dangerous and pervasive diseases nowadays. Interstitial flow has been shown to be the stimulus for cell migration under the influence of the high interstitial fluid pressure inside the cancer tumor...
Tags: metastasis, microfluidics
Characteristics of Swimming microorganisms in Flow
Tran Ngoc Phu, Marcos
Many of microorganisms utilize their flagella, which are hair-like appendages, in order to swim in fluid environment. The research of locomotion of flagellated microorganisms therefore involves the study of flagella’s behaviors as a very essential part. Since flagellated microorganisms swim by propelling...
Tags: microoganism, flow, bacteria
Particle Interactions in Slow Viscous Flow
Yao Xin, Wong Teck Neng, Marcos
The motion of viscous flow containing spherical particles is widespread in a broad range of fields, with industrial and environmental applications such as fluidization and filtration. The major challenges in the elucidation of the hydrodynamic behavior of these systems are particle interactions, which can...
Tags: Particle, Slow viscous flow
Manipulation and sorting of micro-organisms by dielectrophoresis
Koh Boon Yong James, Marcos
Studying the locomotion of micro-organisms, such as bacteria and spermatozoa, allows us to understand how they travel from one point to another. Knowledge is good, but application of the knowledge to achieve desired outcome is better. Dielectrophoresis can alter the kinematic behaviour of micro-organisms...
Tags: manipulation, dielectrophoresis, microorganism, spermatozoa