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Nature Medicine 14, 474 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0508-474

Toaster oven helps researchers toy with microfluidics

Alan Dove1

  1. Springfield, Massachusetts

As a founding faculty member at a brand-new university, Michelle Khine faced a problem in getting started on her work. Trained as an engineer, she planned to build her research around the development of microfluidic devices, the popular 'lab on a chip' systems that consist of channels, pumps and cellular growth chambers arranged together on tiny silicon wafers.