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Optical visualization and quantification of enzyme activity using dynamic droplet lenses
Edited by David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved March 7, 2017 (received for review November 14, 2016)

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- Published in issue April 11, 2017.
- Published first March 27, 2017.
Author Information
- Lauren D. Zarzara,b,1,
- Julia A. Kalowa,b,2,
- Xinping Hea,b,3,
- Joseph J. Walisha,b, and
- Timothy M. Swagera,b,4
- aDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- bInstitute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Edited by David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved March 7, 2017 (received for review November 14, 2016)
Footnotes
↵1Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
↵2Present address: Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
↵3Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China.
- ↵4To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: tswager{at}mit.edu.
Author contributions: L.D.Z., J.A.K., and T.M.S. designed research; L.D.Z., J.A.K., X.H., and J.J.W. performed research; L.D.Z., J.A.K., and T.M.S. analyzed data; and L.D.Z., J.A.K., and T.M.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1618807114/-/DCSupplemental.
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