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Scientific American October 17, 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Transistor Flow Control At the heart of modern electronics are transistors, which act like valves to direct the flow of electrons. Now researchers have created the first transistors that electrically control molecules instead.
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 Ira Boudway	Innovator: Stephen Quake Stanford bio-engineer Stephen Quake has created a rubber chip that makes gene research faster, easier, and more precise.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Eric Smalley	Biochip puts it all together Researchers have made all manner of microfluidic machines, but have yet to come up with cheap, mass-producible biochips for handheld medical and environmental testing. A simple plastic chip puts the necessary pieces together. The $7 device tests blood samples for the presence of E. coli bacteria.
Chemistry World December 22, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay	SlipChip serves up protein crystals A simple microfluidic device requiring no pumps or valves can be used to screen for suitable protein crystallisation conditions, claim US researchers.
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Robert M. Frederickson	Protein Chemistry Surfaces Protein chips seek to do for protein expression profiling what DNA chips did for RNA expression.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Robert M. Frederickson	Spin Control, Swedish Style Putting a new spin on the proteomics lab with a CD-based proteomics microlaboratory
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley	Biochip makes droplet test tubes Researchers who are developing biochips are taking two distinct approaches in devising ways to shunt tiny amounts of liquids around. One focuses on finding ways to form microscopic channels and tiny mechanical pumps. The other is aimed at using electricity to maneuver tiny droplets on surfaces.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Monica Heger	Cheap Microfluidic Device Made From Paper and Tape Harvard scientists hope to reduce the cost of medical tests
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Triangles form one-way channels The microfluidic rectifier could be used in integrated microfluidic circuits, which use control fluids to operate pumps and valves that move samples and reagents in biochips.
Chemistry World December 16, 2013 Michael Parkin	1024 samples analysed on a single chip Researchers in Switzerland have developed a microfluidic platform able to measure four protein biomarkers in over 1000 blood samples on a single microfluidic chip.
Chemistry World September 1, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Drug discovery on a chip Scientists in the US have, for the first time, used microfluidics to discover drug leads. The team's lab-on-a-chip device revealed inhibitors of a key membrane-bound protein in hepatitis C virus
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley	Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl	Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Heated plastic holds proteins One important task for biochips is sorting proteins, but it's tricky business getting protein molecules to be where you want them and stay away from where you don't. A tiny, plastic-coated hot plate allows scientists to trap and release proteins on command.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Helen Bache	Microfluidic sugar paper Researchers in the US have demonstrated that the speed of fluid in a paper microfluidic device can be controlled by sugar solutions dried onto the paper.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Apte et al.	Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter
Reactive Reports David Bradley	Integrated Biochips A new microfluidic device that can perform sample preparation, polymerase chain reaction, and microarray detection functions on a single device has been developed by US researchers.
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Fishing Chips The next generation of protein microarrays from the likes of Protometrix and Molecular Staging may threaten the early leads of Biacore and Ciphergen -- and work so well that drug companies won't want them.
Chemistry World September 16, 2013 Megan Tyler	Reprogrammable microfluidic chips The time-consuming and costly manufacturing processes required to construct microfluidic devices, makes the idea of a reprogrammable chip very attractive.
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Robert M. Frederickson	High-Throughput Science Although genomic assays led the charge toward high-throughput science, new detection systems and formats are enabling the application of high-throughput techniques to proteins and cells.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Robert M. Frederickson	Labcyte Demonstrates 'Sound' Transfer As mundane as the topic of fluid management may seem, it is big business. And this developer of microfluidic systems' new technology is well suited to high-throughput biological applications where large numbers of different fluids must be transferred rapidly and sequentially.
Bio-IT World April 16, 2004 Robert Frederickson	Trial Separations Protein separation through the digital ProteomeChip microchip takes merely minutes, resulting in significantly increased productivity.
Chemistry World September 15, 2011 Tamsin Phillips	Corn Microchips US scientists have made microfluidic devices from a corn by-product, which makes them biodegradable and environmentally friendly.
Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Francesca Burgoyne	Micro fuel cells for microchips Researchers from Spain and Germany have designed the first microfluidic device with an integrated micro fuel cell that is capable of both powering the device and pumping the analyte around the device.
Reactive Reports Issue 41 David Bradley	Chip Chops Time off Drug Discovery Process A next-generation optical screening platform can screen a vast number of compounds rapidly by passing wave after wave of compounds in solution over the surface of the biochip.
Chemistry World May 9, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Multinozzle to Speed up Lab-on-a-Chip Proteomics The pace of proteomics research is set to increase, thanks to the development of a new device that interfaces lab-on-a-chip technology with a conventional mass spectrometer.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Brian R. Santo	25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits
Chemistry World February 25, 2011 Elinor Richards	Diagnosing diseases with CDs A digital compact disc integrated with a microfluidic device to analyse cells has been developed by scientists in the US. The disc can be inserted into a standard computer disc drive for analysis and could be used to diagnose diseases.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Nanoscale rubber hoses debut Researchers from Cornell University have found a way to fabricate flexible tubes whose diameters are 100 nanometers. The tubes could be used to make stacked, interconnected fluidic networks designed to shunt fluids around biochips that sense and analyze chemicals.
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Christopher Barnard	Microfluidic device lets the drop beat Scientists in Switzerland have incorporated pulsing human heart tissue into a microfluidic device to make a model of a living system that could be used to test new drugs.
Reactive Reports Issue 51 David Bradley	Protein Crystals Trapped Researchers have developed a new technique for crystallizing proteins, which could open up a whole range of materials to this powerful analytical technique.
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Microfluidics for the masses US scientists have developed a series of microfluidic building blocks that allow researchers to construct devices by assembling the components like Lego.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003	Microfluidics go nonlinear Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at San Diego have constructed computer-logic-like circuits that control the flow of fluid through a chamber rather than the flow of electricity through a solid.
Chemistry World March 11, 2011 Elinor Richards	Making baby food safer Scientists from Spain have used a lab on a chip device to quickly analyse levels of zearalenone, a contaminant, in infant foods with a detection limit below legislative requirements.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Fluid chip does binary logic Researchers are working to combine many gates to make a microfluidic computing system. The technology could lead to inexpensive, easily-manufacturerd handheld labs-on-a-chip that do not require control electronics.
Chemistry World June 14, 2011	A New Spin on Protein NMR A new technique will allow researchers to study protein structure in greater detail using NMR.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Printing method makes biochips University of Illinois researchers have fabricated tiny, three-dimensional fluidic networks that promise to reduce the size of biochips.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Microchannel Folds Fluids Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a passive mixing scheme that causes the flow of liquids on a microfluidic chip to split, rotate and recombine so that the fluid repeatedly folds in on itself and so mixes relatively quickly despite the lack of turbulence.