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Lab-on-a-chip is an advanced technology that integrates a microfluidic system on a microscale chip. It is the miniaturization of a laboratory to a small device. The 'laboratory' is created by means of channels, mixers, reservoirs, diffusion chambers, integrated electrodes, pumps, valves and more. With lab-on-chip technology, complete laboratories on a square centimetre can be created!
Efficiency
The goal of the lab-on-a-chip technology is to automate standard laboratory processes. This makes it fast and cost efficient; the results of a research can be obtained within a few seconds instead of hours or days.
Applications
Lab-on-a-chip devices are commonly used in biotechnology, drug discovery and chemistry. It is also a large research field. As lab-on-chip has many benefits for the end user, it is applied more and more in laboratory processes.
Lab-on-a-chip has many advantages over conventional technologies!
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