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Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab, reports Technology Review. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic...
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LMNOP (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Apparently dogs really respond to Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape." I will have to try this with Pancake. Water on the mooooooooooon: check. Requisite cat links of the week: cats sitting like people, awesome science project "Michelle Khine's lab at UC...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips ( Michelle Khine tR35 winner )... Microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000 - Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink and...
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MT-Soft Website Development (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips (Michelle Khine tR35 winner)… Microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000 - Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink [...]...
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MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips ( Michelle Khine tR35 winner )... Microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000 - Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink and...
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Remember Shrinky Dinks? Michelle Khine sure does, and has implemented the decorative toys into her research project at UC Irvine. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000–money...
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Switched (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... of this toy's potential. Back in 2006, University of California at Irvine assistant professor Michelle Khine couldn't afford to outfit her lab with the $100,000 worth of equipment needed to create microfluidic chips. Frustrated and impatient, she turned to an updated version of Shrinky Dinks -- one that lets you run the aforementioned plastic sheets through a standard inkjet or laser...
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Living in the Whine Country (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I love out of the box thinking, and here is a person who took a complicated process and simplified it enough that I’d almost call it revolutionary. Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus in 2006 eager. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a [...]
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Andymatic (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I remember I had a pack of Smurf Shrinky Dinks and I think we burned them in the oven: In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. [...]
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CRAFT Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Michelle Khine's lab at UC Irvine couldn't afford the $100K equipment to make microfluidic chips, a sheet of material with tiny channels used for certain diagnostic tests, so she made her own with Shrinky Dinks. From the MIT Technology Review : Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks,...
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O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips -- microfluidic chips (with tiny liquid-filled channels) can cost $100k and more. Michelle Khine used the Shrinky Dinks childrens' toy to make her own. "I thought if I could print out the [designs] at a certain resolution and then make them shrink, I could make channels...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
CCrawford sez, "Michelle Khine couldn't afford the $100,000 fabrication gear to make micro-fluidic chips needed for chip-based diagnostic tests. She turned to Shrinky-Dinks and found a new way to solve the problem." To test her idea, she whipped up a channel design in AutoCAD, printed it out on Shrinky Dink material using a laser printer, and stuck the result in a toaster oven....
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
CCrawford sez, "Michelle Khine couldn't afford the $100,000 fabrication gear to make micro-fluidic chips needed for chip-based diagnostic tests. She turned to Shrinky-Dinks and found a new way to solve the problem." To test her idea, she whipped up a channel design in AutoCAD, printed it out on Shrinky Dink material using a laser printer, and stuck the result in a toaster oven....
