{"id":305536,"date":"2017-04-24T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/04\/170424093948.htm"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:39:48","slug":"revealing-polymeric-fluids-behavior-at-the-microscopic-scale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=305536","title":{"rendered":"Revealing polymeric fluids behavior at the microscopic scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important concept in future healthcare is the development of devices called \u201clab on a chip\u201d. These \u201cchips\u201d are injected to fill specifically designed microscopic channels. These channels contain biosensors which detect, for example, specific markers for diseases within the fluid and provide a quick diagnosis. However, an arising issue is the size of the fluid sample injected inside the chip, with tiny volumes down to a billionth of a liter. Due to lack of available technologies, researchers do not yet fully understand how fluids \u2013 particularly complex ones of biological origins \u2013 behave at such small scales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important concept in future healthcare is the development of devices called &ldquo;lab on a chip&rdquo;. These &ldquo;chips&rdquo; are injected to fill specifically designed microscopic channels. These channels contain biosensors which detect, for example, specific markers for diseases within the fluid and provide a quick diagnosis. However, an arising issue is the size of the fluid sample injected inside the chip, with tiny volumes down to a billionth of a liter. Due to lack of available technologies, researchers do not yet fully understand how fluids &ndash; particularly complex ones of biological origins &ndash; behave at such small scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305537,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305536\/revisions\/305537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}