Category Archives: Device development

Label Free Microtubule Microscopy

Posted on 05/01/2021 by Chaitanya

The exciting work of Mohammed Mahamdeh and Joe Howard (J.Microsc. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12744) prompted me in the December break from teaching in 2018 to try and reproduce it, using the Nikon TiE inverted epifluorescence microscopy in the lab. With the able presence … Continue reading →

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Field microscope

Posted on 14/11/2018 by Chaitanya

After collecting a small personal museum of microscopes (I don’t have a very big house, so there are limits to it), it was thrilling to complete a project with Yash (BS-MS 2018) and Prof. Rapol in Physics @iiserpune, where we … Continue reading →

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Micron-Scale Biological Devices

Posted on 25/07/2016 by Chaitanya

The advent of micro-fluidics has been a boon to research in biology and medicine. Already many such devices exist in the commercial domain reducing what were a plethora of flasks, transfer processes and reactions at the macroscopic scale (even with … Continue reading →

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