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Lego Blocks Simulate Microfluidic Filters

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-slice-they-dice-they-make-julienne-fries dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are playing with Lego blocks to discover how arrays of nanoscopic obstacles could sort cells and other tiny particles by size. Ball bearings dropped through an array of Lego pieces submerged in glycerin serve as an analogue of the tiny systems, with bearings of different sizes taking different paths through the array. An academic paper describing the Lego research recently appeared in the journal Physical Review Letters (subscription required)."

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  1. Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Lego? Microfluidic Filters? Yeah and if I reverse the polarity on the main communications array, a tachyon pulse will be generated.

  2. Re:Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarit by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nonsense, obviously the emergency capacitors would absorb any access energy created by the array. The only side effect was in they overloaded they would discharge through the main reactor core overloading several systems, possibly causing a flux in the hyper-drive which would create a tach...

    oh wait you are right.

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  3. Re:Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarit by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 2, Funny

    wow...

    access = excess

    in = if

    me = just woke up, sorry about that.

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  4. its plinko by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinko
    its plinko