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Nature 442, 351-352 (27 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442351a; Published online 26 July 2006; Corrected 9 August 2006

Open Innovation Challenges

Lab on a chip: A little goes a long way

Jenny Hogan1

  1. Jenny Hogan is a reporter based in Nature's London office.

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Faster, safer and easier to control — chemical reactions in microreactors are taking off in the lab. Now industry is being seduced by the charms of the lab on a chip. Jenny Hogan investigates.

A few years ago, a productive PhD student in Peter Seeberger's chemistry lab would run three or four experiments a day. Each would be a painstaking step towards optimized conditions for a new reaction — be it making a peptide or producing a sugar molecule for use in a possible vaccine.

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