Author: Julia Mullaney

On Sept. 18, Watson Realty celebrated its one-year anniversary with a ribbon-cutting and party. It may have been pouring rain with lightning and thunder, but the crowds came out toRead More

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A joint team has uncovered how soft, deformable particles, like cells, behave in microfluidic channels. Using precisely fabricated hydrogel particles and simulations on the supercomputer “Fugaku,” they demonstrated that particle softness dramatically alters their focusing patterns, deviating significantly from rigid particle behavior. These findings reveal distinct “phase transitions” in focusing, shifting from mid-edge to eight-point, diagonal-edge, and finally center focusing as deformability increases. This breakthrough, explained by a new theoretical model incorporating inertia and deformability, offers crucial insights for designing next-generation microfluidic devices for highly efficient cell sorting and other biomedical applications like early cancer detection. The ability to control…

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