Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Turkish-born American engineer, holding his lab-on-a-chip worm sorter. Yanik is assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at t

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Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Turkish-born American engineer, holding his lab-on-a-chip worm sorter. Yanik is assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. In 2007 he built the world's first lab-on-a-chip that could sort, screen and manipulate Caenorhabditis elegans worms at high speed and high volume. C. elegans is a nematode worm used by scientists to investigate biological phenomena such as ageing, metabolism and neurological diseases. Yanik's lab-on-a-chip speeds up the process of screening worms for drugs and genetics trials, which is normally done by hand. Photographed in 2009.

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