The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2014-03-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1038/nature13118PMID 24622198
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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