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"The brilliant control over blood compositions in vessels is remarkable and essential, inspiring us to think about how to design new fluidic systems," shared Yafeng Yu, the first author of the research project.

The blood vascular network, a natural fluidic system, inspired the research.

"Guided" by the vascular network, Professor Shum's team developed VasFluidics, a fluidic system with functionalisable membrane walls.

"VasFluidics is quite different from the traditional fluidic systems. Channel walls of traditional devices are typically impermeable, and cannot work like real tissues to 'communicate' with fluids inside or outside the channel for fluid modulation."

By exploring and realising the potential of microfluidics for more efficient biofluid processing and analysis, the team realises that new paradigms in designing and fabricating fluidic devices are needed.