A microfluidic chemostat for experiments with bacterial and yeast cells.

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Published in Nat Methods on September 01, 2005

Authors

Alex Groisman1, Caroline Lobo, HoJung Cho, J Kyle Campbell, Yann S Dufour, Ann M Stevens, Andre Levchenko

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC 0374, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. agroisman@ucsd.edu

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