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Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks

Posted by kdawson on from the improvising-science dept.

SoyChemist writes "When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment, so she went MacGyver and started making Lab-on-a-Chip devices in her kitchen with Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer, and a toaster oven. She would print a negative image of the channels onto the polystyrene sheets and then shrink them with heat. The miniaturized pattern served as a perfect mold for forming rounded, narrow channels in PDMS — a clear, synthetic rubber."

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  1. Re:Somethings tapping at the back of her head by heinousjay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ironically, the sensitive guy act is a lot more likely to result in permanent virginity.

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  2. Re:Sometimes people get butt-hurt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh come on... it's first post. At least it wasn't a soviet russia joke or something about women professor overlords.

    Anyone who knows anything about /. knows the insightful posts always come in the 3-5 position... they take longer.

    Women can laugh at penis jokes too, ya know.

    Misogyny it aint.