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Published online 10 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030908-5
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Chemists shrink beakers into drops
Floating droplets could make biosensors.
They look like tiny, floating eyeballs. The black-capped drops bobbing along on oil are US researchers' attempt at ferrying substances around a chip.
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