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US 10,239,057 B2Granted
Microfluidic devices and methods for cell analysis and molecular diagnostics
AssigneeBiopico Systems Inc
InventorJohn Collins
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Abstract
Microfluidic devices and methods that use massively parallel anchored picoreactors as the basis for cell and molecular diagnostics are included in this invention. Different processes such as isolation, processing, amplification and characterization of different fluids, particles, chemical compositions or biospecies are presented. These fluids include biochemical buffers or cellular products including different cells, biochemical compositions, proteins and enzymes.
Claims16
A microfluidic device for performing cell analysis, the microfluidic device comprising:
- a microfluidic chip having a plurality of encapsulated reactors, at least one of the plurality of encapsulated reactors comprising:
- a plurality of micropillars configured to form a trapping site for trapping a single non-encapsulated cell;
- an immiscible fluid encapsulating the plurality of micropillars and the single cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.