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Wednesday, January 02, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/science/physical/01MICR.html Scientists Find That Tiny Pipes Offer Big Payoffs By KENNETH CHANG After shrinking electronics into microelectronics and machines into micromachines, scientists have become microplumbers, too. By carving mazes of pipes the width of a human hair into silicon, glass and plastic, they have developed devices that shuttle around minuscule amounts of liquid, mix them together, run chemical experiments or analyze bits of DNA floating within. They are essentially condensing entire chemistry laboratories — including the expertise of the technicians — onto small chips, with the promise of the usual benefits of miniaturization: faster, cheaper, better....
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