  Paul Blainey is professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. In this
contribution he describes three microfluidic technologies that he and his team
has developed to extend the capability, accessibility, and applications of
microfluidics: (1) Integrated microfluidic sample preparation for genomic
assays, (2) hydrogel-based microfluidics for single-cell genome sequencing, and
(3) an emulsion-based system for combinatorial drug screening.
