| abstract |
A method for fabrication of a lab-on-a-chip system, and a lab-on-a-chip system. The method comprises providing a mould comprising first and second mould parts, at least one of the first and second mould parts having a positioning means adapted to receive and position a chip to rest on a first support structure, and the first and second mould parts adapted to join each other to form a cavity to accommodate therein the positioning means and the first support structure, receiving the chip in the positioning means, forming said cavity by joining the first and second mould parts, securing the chip with a fluid port of the chip to rest on the first support structure for the first support structure to mask the fluid port, introducing a moulding material into said cavity to overmould at least part of the chip and a volume extending away from the chip, separating the first and second mould parts, extracting from the mould the chip overmoulded by said moulding material in areas being adjacent to an area of the fluid port masked by the first support structure and extending away from the chip with, in a first surface, a fluid channel formed by the first support structure. |