We’re almost ready to wrap up for Easter here, but we have a few treats in the form of free* hot articles for you before we go!
First is a hot article from Piotr Garstecki and co-workers on their microfluidic device to screen hundreds of different cocktails of antibiotics to find combinations that will prove lethal to bacteria and overcome resistance:
Rapid screening of antibiotic toxicity in an automated microdroplet system
Krzysztof Churski, Tomasz S. Kaminski, Slawomir Jakiela, Wojciech Kamysz, Wioletta Baranska-Rybak, Douglas B. Weibel and Piotr Garstecki
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1629-1637
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21284F
Next is a Critical Review from Samuel Sia and colleagues on the achievements and challenges in commercialising microfluidic point-of-care diagnostics devices, with advice based on their own experiences:
Commercialization of microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices 
Curtis D. Chin, Vincent Linder and Samuel K. Sia
Lab Chip, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21204H
And the final hot article is from Dong-Myung Kim and colleagues who have developed a new method for expression and capture of recombinant proteins on the same bead:
On-bead expression of recombinant proteins in an agarose gel matrix coated on a glass slide
Kyung-Ho Lee, Ka-Young Lee, Ju-Young Byun, Byung-Gee Kim and Dong-Myung Kim
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1605-1610
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21239K
Happy reading!
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