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The Laboratory of BioChemistry (LBC) was created in September 2012 at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, and is directed by Prof. Andrew Griffiths. We are also part of CBI, UMR 8231 ESPCI-CNRS.
The research activities of LBC are based largely around droplet-based microfluidics, a powerful ultrahigh-throughput system in which reaction volumes can be minaturized by up to a million-fold compared to conventional assays in microtitre plates.
LBC has developed and used such systems for analysis of single molecules, single cells, single bacteria, and single virus-like particles, for example for ultra-sensitive DNA detection, analysis of immune responses and directed evolution of proteins.
They also use these and other systems to study the emergence of Darwinian evolution and the origin-of-life.