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Michelle Khine, 32: University of California, Irvine: a children's toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips.

Publication: Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Michelle Khine, 32: University of California, Irvine: a children's toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips.(BIOTECHNOLOGY)

Article Excerpt
IN 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California's brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000--money that wasn't immediately available. "I'm a very impatient person," says Khine, now an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. "I wanted to figure out how I could set things up really quickly."

Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink and...

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