Companies and academic researchers are developing more and more microfluidic devices. But what the technology stakeholders really want is an application that will trigger widespread adoption of microfluidics by biologists. Nathan Blow reports.
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Blow, N. Microfluidics: in search of a killer application. Nat Methods 4, 665–670 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0807-665
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