technologyreview.com — By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world.
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Closed AccountMay 14, 2008
Is the Swedish discovery the same thing that the Harvard folks are doing? The Harvard researchers describe manipulating the "channels" inherent in the paper as it's constructed, which is something they claim is different than what other microfluidics designers do.
spoomeisterMay 14, 2008
Here's your lab tests... *fold fold fold* now they're your lab results... *fold fold fold* now they're a beautiful swan...
insanebrainMay 14, 2008
No
sanmanMay 14, 2008
well, that's a step up from nuclear power on the drawing board
leszekMay 14, 2008
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wishninjaMay 14, 2008
And the big down side is piss tests will now be so cheap you will need to take one every day before you clock into work, get your car registered, go to school, apply for a loan, and get new insurance.
cippalippa78May 24, 2009
this doesn't mean the work doesn't deserve to be published. It means more that the editors are narrow minded...