How do you screen a billion biological samples a day?

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    BIOTROVE BELIEVES IT FOUND
    TREASURE TROVE IN TINY TUBES
    By Jack Mason
    Small Times Corresponden

    Jun 03, 2002 -

    How do you screen a billion biological samples a day? BioTrove Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., hopes to achieve that extraordinary throughput by processing droplets as small as .5 nanoliters in enormous batches.
    Founded in 1997, the MIT spinoff has developed the Living Chip, a 3x5-inch rectangle or 6-inch circular honeycomb of silicon micromachined with as many as 100,000 holes. The chip's matrix of channels, each about 300 microns in diameter and 500 microns deep, serves as a miniature, massively parallel system for screening genes, isolating enzymes, engineering proteins or discovering drugs.

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