You Always Knew You Kept Your Legos for a Reason

Aug 26, 2009

Johns Hopkins engineers used Legos to model microfluidic arrays at more easily observable scale, reports Scientific Blogging. Researchers led by Joelle Frechette and German Drazer used small beads, a glycerol-filled tank, and Legos to see what happens on the micro- or nano-scale of a microfluidic array.

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