<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8b055b3-8e1c-4909-917c-e930ef5a258b/28DED375-2E37-4652-8E07-3084C0ACD824/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html" href="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.engr.umd.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.engr.umd.edu/img/A39412EA-60EB-490D-A400-FCB028CF508C" alt="Manipulation" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><P class="caption">Precise manipulation of cells on chip. Three yeast cells are being steered to an accuracy of 1 mm (1/1000th of a millimeter) each by feedback flow control. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.engr.umd.edu/img/179AB3F7-DCDF-4F3D-B627-86168F5D82AA" alt="Yeast" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><P class="caption">Live (clear) and dead (blue) yeast cells patterned by means of alternating electric fields. Fields at different frequencies were applied between the pairs of electrodes shown in order to separate the cells.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.engr.umd.edu/img/48380000-74B7-4D67-9568-AE6978B9094C" alt="Photomicrograph" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html"><P class="caption">Photomicrograph of human breast cancer cells cultured <EM>in vitro</EM> on top of a CMOS chip. An array of capacitance sensors on the chip are used to track the health and growth of the cells. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html">Different cells can be grown on these microchips, depending on the task at hand. Like a bloodhound hot on the trail of a scent, a chip containing a collection of olfactory cells plus sensing circuits that can interpret their behavior could detect the presence of explosives.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engr.umd.edu/media/pressreleases/pr050608_cellbased.html">Imagine tiny biology labs, each one on a chip, in an array of thousands of chips that could fit in the palm of your hand.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/28DED375-2E37-4652-8E07-3084C0ACD824/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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