Advances in the application of microfluidics technology to biological assays using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans help to automate otherwise time-consuming experiments.

This process is known as Laser-Induced Backside Wet Etching, and is used to machine micron-sized features such as microfluidics, microlens arrays, waveguides, microholes and photonic gratings.

After mechanical load testing, the same set of laser parameters was shown to produce the best performing module – which lost 5% of its performance compared to 6.63% for cells cut under reference ...