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Published online 27 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020923-10
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Lab shrunk to a chip
Circuits that shunt liquids rather than electrical currents could soon screen chemicals.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have built a chip that shunts liquids, just as silicon microchips shunt current1. It is a significant step towards the long-held hope of a lab-on-a-chip replacing the automated instruments that currently carry out chemical analysis, such as drug screening or environmental testing.
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