Lab-on-a-chip Ultrasonic Platform to Monitor Tissue Culture Stiffness

The stiffening of a structure surrounding cells in the human body can indicate that cancer is invading other tissue. Being able to monitoring changes to this structure, called the extracellular matrix, would give researchers another way to study the progression of disease.

But detecting changes to the extracellular matrix is hard to do without damaging it, so Purdue University engineers built a device that would allow disease specialists to load an extracellular matrix sample onto a platform and detect stiffness through sound waves. The device is described in a study published in the journal Lab Chip

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Featured Purdue University Engineers:
Rahim Rahimi, Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering
Amin Zareei, Doctoral Student, Materials Engineering


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