Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks

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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That's so hot

[sneakyimp]

Does she have a phone number? Can I email her on her home-made mobile phone?

Re:Karma Burn

[cyphercell]

here's his moderation:

• 60% Troll
• 20% Insightful
• 20% Underrated

Personally, I prefer moderations like this, as opposed to 100% troll, or even 100% insightful. Hell the other day I was modded troll into oblivion because I disagreed with the "group think of the moment". I don't care, even weirder it's really hard for me to understand why only a few people saw what I saw, that doesn't lead me to think anything was unfair, I just kept on pressing my views, and they weren't popular (shit I might even be wrong, but at least people know I'll pursue something till I understand it). Anyways, moderation, karma, popular opinions, it's all politics, a politician that never loses an argument (or in our case is always moderated insightful), is simply a dictator. If anyone has a real problem with moderators, they should meta-moderate, problem with the firehose, go vote, welcome to open source news.