[DIYbio] Re: At home fabrication of micron scale microfluidics

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 5:42:56 AM UTC-8, Peter Shankles wrote:

 

What I want to know is:

  What types of features and designs would be most important to include?

 

I believe there is a better way to approach your marketing survey.  Find a protocol that needs to be done DIY.  Then create a microfluidics solution which fits that protocol.  Repeat with three different protocols.  Then you have something interesting.  For example, Genomikon is a kit using very good DIY synbio protocol.  Now just make a microfluidics version.  This solves multiple problems.  The reagents are expensive, and microfluidics allows this cost to be significantly reduced per experiment run, by reducing the volume of liquid used.  The microfluidics version would also remove human error in liquid handling, reducing waste (thus also total cost per experiment) and schedule delay.

The most important feature of your product however is very simply going to be better yields.


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