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A few good tricks

Clever microfluidic plumbers show us how biological processing at the nanolitre scale really only requires micromachining technology. The pico era may not be so far off.

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Figure 1: Scientists who want to look at individual cells can use precision-controlled, micrometre-sized channels for nanolitre-scale biological sample processing and analysis.

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Northrup, M. A few good tricks. Nature Mater 3, 282–283 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1131

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