IN MEMORIAM

Antoni Tàpies (13 Dec 1923 - 6 Feb 2012), Catalan painter, sculptor, art theorist, and the most famous Spanish artist since Picasso.

"Art, like science, is a source of knowledge"

A sample of what is coming can be found in the (highly popular!) galleries below, containing over 1,700 pictures and movies of microfluidic devices, cellular micropatterns, microstructures, and cells in general (most unpublished, often unpublishable to be honest, but all free for you to download and enjoy -- keep visiting, we add new pictures almost every week!):

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The FolchLabART is growing! We have now organized three art exhibits in Seattle, collectively called BAIT for "Bringing Art Into Technology". Below are the pictures from the most recent exhibit in the UW Allen Library Research Commons. (Yes they are for sale and they are selling well!) :-) If you are interested in buying high-resolution prints, we make them available on canvas (a less expensive packaging process than paper and framing) through SeattleOnCanvas. It makes a great gift, and it supports education! You can also donate online (as little as $10, anything helps) to support the Folch Lab exhibits.

The human body can be considered a vastly complex biochemical network of cells in constant communication. The connectivity changes in time, often by the second (e.g., during development or wound healing), and depends critically on microscale cellular and molecular scaffolds and gradients. Clearly, these spatiotemporal variations cannot be accurately addressed with traditional cell culture methods based on seeding cells over a homogeneous substrate and bathing them with a homogeneous solution. Are you homogeneous?

We design and use microfluidic devices to better mimic the real microenvironment of nerve and cancer cells when we culture them outside of the organism.

We are microfluidic!

Examples of questions that interest us are how neurons find their targets during development (axon guidance), how they establish their connections (synaptogenesis), and how we sense odors (olfaction), among other projects. We also build microfluidic devices that allow us to personalize chemotherapy and devices to study cancer stem cells.
For more details on our research projects, ENTER here >>

NEW! Click on FolchLabART to learn more about our ART outreach activities. Interested in purchasing our art? Go to SeattleOnCanvas.

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NEW -- Watch Albert Folch's interview on UWTV.

Do you enjoy our art outreach efforts and would like to donate? Please click here, donations can be as small as $10 and are tax-deductible because our BAIT exhibits are educational outreaches that seek to increase the scientific literacy of the public through artistic displays.

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