Lego Blocks Simulate Microfluidic Filters

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 2, 2009 @02:31AM 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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Re:Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarit by thomasdz · 2009-09-02 02:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Lego? Microfluidic Filters? Yeah and if I reverse the polarity on the main communications array, a tachyon pulse will be generated.
FAIL: you forgot to mention the Heisenberg compensators and the plasma conduits.

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Re:Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarit by simcop2387 · 2009-09-02 02:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

yea but he didn't mention the replicator and transporter systems.