Krishna Sanka will host the Hack Chat on Wednesday, July 7 at noon Pacific.
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"Microfluidics" sounds like a weird and wonderful field, but one that doesn't touch regular life too much. But consider that each time you fire up an ink-jet printer, you're putting microfluidics to work, as nanoliter-sized droplets of ink are spewed across space to impact your paper at exactly the right spot.
Ink-jets may be mundane, but the principles behind them are anything but. Microfluidic mechanisms have found their way into all sorts of products and processes, with perhaps the most interesting uses being leveraged to explore and exploit the microscopic realms of life. Microfluidics can be used to recreate some of the nanoscale biochemical reactions that go on in cells, and offer not only new ways to observe the biological world, but often to manipulate it. Microfluidics devices range from "DNA chips" that can rapidly screen drug candidates against thousands of targets, to devices that can rapidly screen clinical samples for exposure to toxins or pathogens.
There are a host of applications of microfluidics in biohacking, and Krishna Sanka is actively working to integrate the two fields. As an engineering graduate student, his focus is open-source, DIY microfluidics that can help biohackers up their game, and he'll stop by the Hack Chat to run us through the basics. Come with your questions about how -- and why -- to build your own microfluidics devices, and find out how modern biohackers are learning to "go with the flow."
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I'm part of a fablab where I can set experiment and extend the knowledge and curiosity about your work.
I'm interested into biohacking in the French West Indies.
Thank your for your release.
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