Lab-on-a-chip

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Lab-on-a-chip: artist's impression of DNA strands (travelling from left to right) trapped by optical forces in a slot waveguide and transported by those forces in a direction perpendicular to the original flow. Optofluidics could one day yield cancer-cell-destroying microchips that circulate in the bloodstream. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF.