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Nature Materials 3, 282 - 283 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1131

Microfluidics: A few good tricks

M. Allen Northrup1

  1. M. Allen Northrup is at MicroFluidic Systems Inc., 3918 B Valley Avenue, Pleasanton, California 94566, USA. e-mail: northrup@mfsi.biz

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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