Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation
of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of
Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw were first to
construct a microfluidic system allowing for merging, transporting and
splitting of microdroplets. Since now, hundreds of different bacteria cultures
can be maintained simultaneously in a single system, which could speed up the
research on restistance of bacteria to antibiotics.