Supplements
Insight: Lab on a chip
Vol. 442, No. 7101 pp367-418
The ability to perform laboratory operations on small scales using miniaturized (lab-on-a-chip) devices has many benefits. Designing and fabricating such systems is extremely challenging, but physicists and engineers are beginning to construct highly integrated and compact labs on chips with exciting functionality as outlined in this Insight. The collection also highlights recent advances in the application of microfluidic-chip-based technologies such as chemical synthesis, the study of complex cellular processes and medical diagnostics.
In this supplement
Editorial
Lab on a chip
Rosamund Daw and Joshua Finkelstein
doi:10.1038/442367a
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Overview
The origins and the future of microfluidics
George M. Whitesides
doi:10.1038/nature05058
Abstract |Full Text | PDF (598KB)
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Reviews
Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems
Dirk Janasek, Joachim Franzke and Andreas Manz
doi:10.1038/nature05059
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (559KB)
Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics
Demetri Psaltis, Stephen R. Quake and Changhuei Yang
doi:10.1038/nature05060
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (859KB)
Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules
Harold Craighead
doi:10.1038/nature05061
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (759KB)
Control and detection of chemical reactions in microfluidic systems
Andrew J. deMello
doi:10.1038/nature05062
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1179KB)
Cells on chips
Jamil El-Ali, Peter K. Sorger and Klavs F. Jensen
doi:10.1038/nature05063
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1459KB)
Microfluidic diagnostic technologies for global public health
Paul Yager, Thayne Edwards, Elain Fu, Kristen Helton, Kjell Nelson, Milton R. Tam and Bernhard H. Weigl
doi:10.1038/nature05064
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