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."

Comments

I'D TAP THAT WITH MY NOT SO SHRINKY DINK

[Anonymous Coward]

Michelle Khine, daddy like, daddy like

That's so hot

[sneakyimp]

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

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[Taco Meat]

I have again been the victim of moderator abuse http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=366293&cid=21424075. MOD me up to correct this injustice.

Too many moderators use Insightful as "I agree". Too many moderators fall for unoriginal groupthink and mod it up. People complain about trolls, but the REAL line noise on slashdot comes from the posts modded +4 or +5 that contribute NOTHING to an intelligent discussion. You can't filter that out, and even if you have your thresholds set high, you still see all the stupid stuff that you've already seen. That's why digg sucks and will never be anything but a place for 1338 high-skool haxx0rs. And it's happening here. So I used this account to call shenanigans on sucky posts. I getted modded into oblivion for pointing out truth. I guess that's how it goes. Most of you are a bunch of mindless sheeple.

One way to fix this: I think Slashdot should give IQ tests to all would-be moderators. That would ensure most of the ramshackle pseudo-intellectuals who get mod points would be replaced by people who can actually read the moderator guidelines and adhere to them.

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.