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Biological material pooling device for biological or biomolecule purification

Bart Deplancke, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern

The present invention concerns a biological material pooling device for biological or biomolecule purification comprising a receptacle including a first orifice comprising ordefining a rectangular opening, the receptacle being configured to receive at leas ...

2023

Industrial Biotechnology Conservation Processes: Similarities with Natural Long-Term Preservation of Biological Organisms

Philippe Abdel Sayed, Corinne Scaletta, Lee Ann Laurent-Applegate, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Alexis Laurent

Cryopreservation and lyophilization processes are widely used for conservation purposes in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and food industries or in medical transplantation. Such processes deal with extremely low temperatures (e.g., -196 degrees C) a ...

MDPI2023

Surprise-based model estimation in reinforcement learning: algorithms and brain signatures

Vasiliki Liakoni

Learning how to act and adapting to unexpected changes are remarkable capabilities of humans and other animals. In the absence of a direct recipe to follow in life, behaviour is often guided by rewarding and by surprising events. A positive or a negative o ...

EPFL2021

Integration of microfluidics and multimodal optics for translational bioanalytics

Daniel Migliozzi

Numerous analytical techniques for life sciences have been at the basis of the improvement of medical diagnostics and treatments. Current challenges in bioanalytics are related to the conception of methods enabling large amount of information to be extract ...

EPFL2019

Neuronal morphologies: the shapes of thoughts

Lida Kanari

The mammalian brain, one of the most fascinating systems in nature, is a complex biological structure that has kept scientists busy for over a century. Many of the brain's mysteries have been unraveled due to the enormous efforts of the scientific communit ...

EPFL2018

Photonic Nanojet Array for Fast Detection of Single Nanoparticles in a Flow

Martinus Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Hui Yang

We detect by optical microscopy Au and fluorescent nanopartides (NPs) during their motion in water based medium, using an array of dielectric microspheres that are patterned in a microwell array template. The Microspheres act as lenses focusing the light o ...

American Chemical Society2015

Electrochemical sensing and imaging of biological samples

Alexandra Bondarenko

Implementation of analytical methods for biological samples (e.g. bacteria or mammalian cells) is of great importance for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, as well as for environmental monitoring. However, analysing biological samples is a cumbe ...

EPFL2015

Sample processing device with detachable slide

Martinus Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik

A biological and chemical sample processing device that b. comprises a high pressure-resistant, shallow and wide area microfluidic chamber having at least one wall formed by a detachable slide containing samples such as immobilized entities, biological sam ...

2013

Emerging predictable features of replicated biological invasion fronts

Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Biological dispersal shapes species' distribution and affects their coexistence. The spread of organisms governs the dynamics of invasive species, the spread of pathogens, and the shifts in species ranges due to climate or environmental change. Despite its ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Methods for Designing Reliable Probe Arrays

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Abhishek Garg

Recent advances in biosensing technologies have led to applications of biosensor probe arrays for rapid identification of biological agents such as drugs, gene expressions, proteins, cholesterol and fats in an input sample. However, monitoring the simultan ...

IEEE2010