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Stephen Quake is the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Here he reviews the early history of microfluidics and discusses more recent developments, with a focus on applications in biology and…
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Luke P. Lee is a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. In this contribution he describes the power of optofluidics as a research tool and reviews new insights within the areas of single cell analysis,…
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