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If you’re a researcher or student using SolidWorks on an Apple Silicon Mac, you’ve probably run into the same wall: SolidWorks doesn’t officially support virtualized environments, and getting it to run stably in VMware Fusion takes some work. After extensive troubleshooting, here is the complete step-by-step protocol that got SolidWorks 2025 running on an M5…

    My past devices that utilize a membrane to separate particles have been haunted by mysterious pieces of junk. The other day I took a moment to inspect the holes that are punched using a sharpened 16ga needle in order to mate capillaries. 10x brightfield image of a punched hole, viewed horizontally    …

A quick recap:  Vaccinex has asked the lab to design a closed system device with the capability to co-culture on microporous membranes.  This device would be used to mimic the blood brain barrier, with endothelial cells cultured on the apical side and glial cells cultured on the basal side, and would allow for the testing…

The controls of the micropump are in units of frequency, voltage, and wave form, not in flow rates. Based on the manufacturers website they claim that the flow rate has a linear relation with voltage. I took some time to create calibration  curves at two fixed frequencies (50Hz and 150Hz). I simply allowed the system…

JP handed me a stack of wafers today, and I went over to the Krauss Lab and with the help of Jack Calcines got some AFM images.  I didn’t have much time to play with, so I tried to get the most data I could quickly.  I think we’ll have to do a more exhaustive…

Last week I tried to diffuse Cytochrome C through our membranes onto PVDF and PES membranes to see if we can detect protein adsorption on the other membranes. The trial illustrated that cytochrome c will diffuse through our membranes and stick to the PVDF and PES membranes. I ran the experiment again, but I used…