Building Microfluidics Devices
Biomedical engineer Michelle Khine uses Shrinky Dinks straight from the toy store to build microfluidic devices.
Khine holds up a Shrinky Dink sheet on which she has printed several designs. She uses an ordinary laser printer to reproduce the patterns.
Credit: Dave Lauridsen
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