Michelle Khine, a research scientist, entrepreneur, mentor, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, still gets to play with her favorite childhood toy. More than 10 years ago, as a founding professor at the University of California, Merced, Khine came up with an elegant, effective and inexpensive solution to creating microfluidic chips using Shrinky Dinks^®, a thin plastic that can be cut into any shape and baked into a smaller, thicker size. Today, the popular children's activity material remains an integral element of her fundamental and applied research. "We develop our own technology," says Khine …. Read More