By Elizabeth Svoboda

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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