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Gating of a Mechanosensitive Channel by Fluid Flows

Princeton Docket # 16-3177-1Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have proposed a method to control the opening and closing of mechanosensitive (MS) channels on a cell membrane.MS channels are membrane proteins that can be gated by membrane tension, and they play major roles in mechano-sensation...
Published: 3/6/2018   |   Inventor(s): Howard Stone, YuaN-Nan Young, Shravan Veerapaneni, On Shun Pak, Gary Marple
Keywords(s): drug delivery, fluid mechanics
Category(s): Civil/Environmental Engineering

A Method for Producing Large Lipid Vesicles

Princeton Docket # 15-3172-1Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have developed a method to produce large unilamellar lipid vesicles with controlled size.Fusion between suspended lipid vesicles is difficult to achieve without membrane proteins or ions, because the vesicles have extremely low equilibrium...
Published: 2/28/2018   |   Inventor(s): Sangwoo Shin, Jesse Ault, Howard Stone
Keywords(s): drug delivery, fluid mechanics
Category(s): Mechanical, Civil/Environmental Engineering

Microfluidic Detection of Contaminants in Colloidal Suspensions

Microfluidic Detection of Contaminants in Colloidal Suspensions Princeton Docket # 15-3058 Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University have developed a novel microfluidic method that allows accurate measurement of a small concentration of large contaminants in suspensions of particles. Large contaminants...
Published: 3/15/2018   |   Inventor(s): Emilie Dressaire, Alban Sauret, Howard Stone
Keywords(s): electronics, fluid mechanics, instrumentation, microfluidic devices
Category(s): Chemistry, Mechanical