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Microfluidics closes in on point-of-care assays

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An integrated microfluidic device enables rapid detection of protein biomarkers in patient samples.

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Figure 1: Possible workflow for a commercial microfluidic biomarker assay system.

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  1. Peter K. Sorger is in the Department of Systems Biology, WAB Room 438, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. peter_sorger@hms.harvard.edu,

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Sorger, P. Microfluidics closes in on point-of-care assays. Nat Biotechnol 26, 1345–1346 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1208-1345

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