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“I LOVED SHRINKY DINKS AS A KID!” exclaimed Michelle Khine, a biomedical engineering professor I met at a weekend summer camp for scientists called SciFoo, held at Google and organized by Nature magazine and O’Reilly Media. Khine explained how Shrinky Dinks toys inspired her to come up with a new nanoscale process that led to her startup, Shrink Technologies.
By creating a design at larger scale and then shrinking it down, Khine was able to find a simple and inexpensive method of making microfluidic channels for what she calls a “lab on a chip.” Her early prototypes were printed on a laser printer and then ...
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