Scientists Develop New Tool for Imprinting Biochips
Credit: Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY
“This is essentially a new nanoscale printer that allows us to imprint more complexity on the surface of biochip than any of the currently available commercial technologies,” said Adam Braunschweig, lead researcher and associate professor with the ASRC’s Nanoscience Initiative. “It will help us to gain much better understanding of how cells and biological pathways work.”
An additional benefit of the new tool is that it allows researchers to reliably print on a variety of delicate materials–including glasses, metals, and lipids–on the length scale of biological interactions, and without the use of a clean room. It also allows scientists to fit more reactive probes onto a single chip. These improvements could, in theory, reduce the cost of biochip-facilitated research.
ASRC scientists are now exploring ways to fine tune their new technique for creating these biochips. “We want to be able to record even more complex surface interactions and reduce our resolution down to a single molecule,” said ASRC Research Associate Carlos Carbonell, the paper’s lead author. “This technique gives rise to a new method of microarray creation that should be useful to the entire field of biological ‘omics’ research.”
Our correct name is the Advance Science Research Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. For the purpose of space, Advance Science Research Center, GC/CUNY is acceptable. On second reference, ASRC is correct.
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Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2018/03/scientists-develop-new-tool-for.html
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