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Cost-effective, high-performance micropumps for lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis
September 4, 2014
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Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated an acoustofluidic pump powered by a piezoelectric transducer about the size of a quarter. This reliable, inexpensive, programmable pump is a crucial feature for lab-on-a-chip devices that could make the diagnosis of many global life-threatening diseases easy and affordable.Full StorySource
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