Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.
Science Careers Booklet

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 16 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5388, pp. 399 - 401
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.399
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News Focus

LABS ON A CHIP:
Coming Soon: The Pocket DNA Sequencer

Robert F. Service

A handful of university researchers and companies are working to shrink to pocket size all types of chemistry equipment, including high-pressure liquid chromatography assays, high-throughput drug-screening systems, portable environmental screening equipment, biological weapons detectors, DNA sequencers, and even chemical production plants (see sidebar). Harking back to the microelectronics revolution, researchers refer to these chips as "microfluidics" and expect them to have some of the same impact as computer microchips. Proponents believe that the miniaturization of chemical equipment will lead to a host of as-yet-undreamed-of applications.

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Automation for Genomics, Part Two: Sequencers, Microarrays, and Future Trends.
D. Meldrum (2000)
Genome Res. 10, 1288-1303
   Abstract »    Full Text »


ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

To Advertise     Find Products