Devices for detecting or filtering tumor cells
AssigneeShanghai Xinshenpai Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsChris C. Yu, Xuedong Du, He Yu
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Abstract
Among others, the present invention provides devices each including a micro-filter, a shutter, a cell counter, a selector, a micro-surgical kit, a timer, and a data processing circuitry, wherein the micro-filter is capable of detecting or filtering circulating tumor cells.
Claims10
A micro-device comprising a micro-trench, a probe embedded alongside the trench's side walls or bottom floor, and a controlling circuitry, wherein the micro-device is capable of trapping, measuring, detecting, sorting, counting, analyzing, modifying, correcting, or communicating diseased cells in a biological subject by measuring a property of the diseased cells at microscopic level;
- wherein the probe comprise a flexible supporting structure, embedded alongside the trench's side walls or bottom floor, to support the probe and to extend or contract the probe relative to the trench's side walls or bottom floor, and the flexible supporting structure comprises a piezoelectric material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.