http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/ Engadget Comments for Researchers in the Netherlands develop a microfluidic chip for testing drug reactions http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 27th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 26th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Apr 25th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/
Microfluidic chips are nothing new. There are a number of commercial applications out there. For example, Agilent makes the Lab-on-a-Chip analysis system. See:

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oh wait, I published in a peer-reviewed journal unlike these netherlanders. ]]>Apr 25th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/
"netherlanders"?!

go back top school kid]]>Apr 25th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/
"go back top school kid"??

You need to go back to touch typing school or get a better spell-checker]]>Apr 25th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/But that university is a well accepted institute and they do publish in peer-reviewed publications too.

And when they say it's a 1000 times smaller than the usual version I'm guessing they acknowledge that the chip is not new but the size of it is.

Oh and I like that new trend of clearly poorly educated people claiming they 'did that themselves already' often in post that then indeed show these people cannot even spell or form a sentence in their own language. I see that all over comment sections on various sites.

I cannot be certain if that is the situation here of course, but I do know it's a popular false claim currently.
]]>Apr 25th 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/researchers-in-the-netherlands-develop-a-microfluidic-chip-for-t/Mainly because the MEMS plasma etchers that are used for this are only now getting to the level required for the applications.

I have seen a lot of university interest growing in Micro-fluidics recently.
THe technology is very exciting.

If you want you could google STS etchers, Alcatel MEMS, SAMCO MEMS and you will see three of the leading etching companies in the field...


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