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IF a capillary tube, A, Fig. 1, with a wedge-shaped cut in it at a distance of about 10 mm. from its upper end, at right angles to, and deep enough to make a breach in one side of its aperture, is ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in ...

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A lab-on-a-chip is a class of device that integrates and automates multiple laboratory techniques into a system that fits on a chip up to a maximum of a few square centimetres in size. By manipulating ...