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Microfluidics: streamlining discovery in worm biology

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Advances in the application of microfluidics technology to biological assays using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans help to automate otherwise time-consuming experiments.

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Figure 1: Two new applications of microfluidics to study C. elegans.

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  1. S. Elizabeth Hulme and Sergey S. Shevkoplyas are in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Aravinthan Samuel is in the Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA. samuel@physics.harvard.edu,

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Hulme, S., Shevkoplyas, S. & Samuel, A. Microfluidics: streamlining discovery in worm biology. Nat Methods 5, 589–590 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0708-589

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