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into devices the size of a microscope slide. The UF team has developed a microfluidic device for DNA purification that could speed up analysis of laboratory samples and match or exceed the purity ...

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into devices the size of a microscope slide. The UF team has developed a microfluidic device for DNA purification that could speed up analysis of laboratory samples and match or exceed the purity ...