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Multidisciplinary Modeling in Biotech ApplicationsBiomedical Engineering:
Multidisciplinary Modeling in Biotech Applications

MEDRAD's Innovations Group, Indianola, PA
Much of MEDRAD´s research deals with the most efficient yet safest way to deliver diagnostic fluids into a patient´s body. And while fluid dynamics plays a...

MEMS Biosensor Brings about Disposable DNA DetectorsMicrofluidics:
MEMS Biosensor Brings about Disposable DNA Detectors

Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Wouldn't it be a great service for the diagnosing and treating genetic of diseases if physicians had a disposable instrument for detecting DNA that worked...

Fast Protein Folding: ItMicrofluidics:
Fast Protein Folding: It's a Wrap

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
How relaxed protein strands loop and lace or "fold" controls the form they take and the functions they perform in the human body. If the stretched out chains...

Model Examples

Transport in an Electrokinetic Valve: This model presents an example of pressure driven flow and electrophoresis in a 3D... Electroosmotic Micromixer: Microlaboratories for biochemical applications often require rapid mixing of different fluid...
Microwave Cancer Therapy: Electromagnetic heating is ideally suited for modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics. This model... Hepatic Tumor Ablation: One method for removing cancerous tumors from healthy tissue is to heat the malignant tissue to...
Microchannel Cell: This example was originally formulated by Albert Witarsa under Professor Bruce Finlayson’s... Magnetic Drug Targeting: Current research on methods to target chemotherapy drugs in the human body includes the...
3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of an Obstacle in a Fluid Channel: In this model, fluid is flowing through a... An Electrokinetic Valve in a Microchannel System: This model presents an example of pressure driven flow and...
Electrokinetic Flow in a Bio Chip: Miniature laboratories are required to efficiently analyze the information in the... Star-Shaped Microchannel Chip: This model presents a time-dependent study of a microchannel that is used to infuse and...
Electrochemical Treatment of Tumors: This model treats the transport and electrolytic reaction in the treatment of tumor... Drug Release from a Biomaterial Matrix: In this example, drug-release from a biomaterial matrix to damaged cell tissue...
Degradation of DNA in Plasma: Biotechnology is a rapidly growing area in the pharmaceutical sciences. One example of a... AC Electrokinetically Enhanced Surface Reactions: This model studies the use of AC electrokinetic forces to enhance the...