文档介绍：Microfluidics
for Biological Applications
Wei-Cheng Tian · Erin Finehout
Editors
Microfluidics
for Biological Applications
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Editors
Wei-Cheng Tian Erin Finehout
General Electric General Electric
Global Research Center Global Research
1 Research Circle 1 Research Circle
Niskayuna, NY 12309 Niskayuna, NY 12309
ISBN: 978-0-387-09479-3 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-09480-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008930844
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To my family
Erin Finehout
To Gan-Wu, Yu-Hsien, Wei-Hua, Kaitlyn, Darren, and Jennifer
Wei-Cheng Tian
Preface
In Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman’s well-known 1959 speech
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”[1] he marvels that although
many biological systems, such as cells, are very small, they are active and
perform a number of functions. He then poses the challenge “Consider the
possibility that we too can make a thing very small which does what we
want – that we can manufacture an object that maneuvers at that level!”[1]
In this book we hope to show readers that we are getting closer to meeting
this challenge. We have tools to manipulate and analyze small volumes of
biomolecules (such as DNA and