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Against the background of an ongoing demand on faster, more cost-effective and more sensitive analysis methods particularly in the area of forensic DNA analysis, innovative and sophisticated technologies are necessary. In this work a multifunctional lab-on-a-chip device is presented that is capable of performing reliable, reproducible and highly sensitive DNA analyses even if applied to a wide variety of small-scale forensic relevant sample materials. The reported high fashion lab-on-a-chip technology represents a fascinating starting point to optimize and even revolutionize forensic research by superseding old-fashioned, bulky, costly and time-consuming standard laboratory operating procedures that are still in use so far.

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Dr. rer. nat. Daniela Rita Woide was born in 1980 and lives in Munich, Germany. She reached the academic degree Dipl. Biol. Univ. at the Technical University Munich for studies in biology. Continuing her scientific career she did a Ph.D. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, by what she earned the academic degree doctor rerum naturalium.

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