TECHNOLOGY

We use a medium powered infra red laser-diode, a well-established component used in CD-R/W disk drives and laser welders, and we point the laser-beam at microfluidic channels and reservoirs. By this action we can instigate microfluidic flow control, thermocycling, cell lysis, mixing, fluorescence excitation etc., all the basic functions involved in performing complex biochemical analysis.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke