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US 10,538,731 B2Granted
Device for manipulating biological cells using a vibrating support
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsFabrice Casset, Arnaud Millet
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Abstract
Device for sorting living cells, comprising at least one support including a surface having adherence properties with respect to said type of living cells, actuators capable of making said surface vibrate at at least one given frequency and a controller for controlling the actuators such that the surface vibrates at a frequency causing the detachment of at least one type of living cells.
Claims18
Device for manipulating biological cells distinguished by their adherence properties, comprising:
- at least one support including a reception surface enabling the adherence of a plurality of cells having different adherence properties with respect to said reception surface, the support being a suspended membrane,
- at least one actuator contacting said suspended membrane and configured to make said surface vibrate at at least one natural frequency of the membrane, and
- a controller configured to control said actuator such that the surface vibrates at a predetermined frequency correlated to adherence properties of at least one type of biological cells among said plurality of cells such that the predetermined frequency causing detachment of the at least one type of biological cells while not causing detachment of others of said plurality of cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.