Liposome-based liquid handling platform featuring addition, mixing, and aliquoting of femtoliter volumes.

This paper describes the utilization of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) as a platform for handling chemical and biochemical reagents. GUVs with diameters of 5 to 10 µm and containing chemical/biochemical reagents together with inert polymers were fused with electric pulses (electrofusion). After r...

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Main Authors: Hideaki Shiomi, Soichiro Tsuda, Hiroaki Suzuki, Tetsuya Yomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4081812?pdf=render