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Microfluidics and the hunt for the killer app

By Lily | Published: July 27, 2009
In microfluidics, the search for a killer app has been on since the early 90s. Although some microfluidic products have successfully appeared on the market (e.g. inkjet printheads), microfluidics hasn’t taken the world by storm as fast as people thought it might. Over the years, leaders in the field have speculated about a potential killer [...]
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MIT OpenCourseWare on BioMEMS

By Lily | Published: July 18, 2009
Several years back, MIT decided to make its course materials freely available on the web. Not all materials from all courses are available, but there are several offerings in microsystems/microfluidics/BioMEMS if you’d like to construct a do-it-yourself education. For example: HST.410J / 6.07J Projects in Microscale Engineering for the Life Sciences 6.777J / 2.372J Design [...]
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How commercializable is microfluidics research?

By Lily | Published: July 18, 2009
In grad school I often secretly wondered about the commercial potential of our microfluidics research. I’ve touched on this issue before, and Derek Lowe recently discussed what makes a technology useful in lab (many microfluidic devices are platform technologies designed for use in lab). In the June 21st issue of Lab on a Chip, Holger [...]
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