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Evolution on a chip.
The photograph shows a magnified view of a microfluidic chip in which billions of RNA enzymes were made to undergo hundreds of generations of Darwinian evolution, all under computer control. The active circuit, filled with blue dye, is 1 cm in diameter and contains five microvalves that are operated pneumatically (see Paegel and Joyce, e85).
Image Credit: Photograph by Brian Paegel, The Scripps Research Institute
Citation: (2008) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 6(4) April 2008. PLoS Biol 6(4): ev06.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v06.i04
Published: April 29, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Brian Paegel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The photograph shows a magnified view of a microfluidic chip in which billions of RNA enzymes were made to undergo hundreds of generations of Darwinian evolution, all under computer control. The active circuit, filled with blue dye, is 1 cm in diameter and contains five microvalves that are operated pneumatically (see Paegel and Joyce, e85).
Image Credit: Photograph by Brian Paegel, The Scripps Research Institute