Liquid arrays
OwnerShiping Chen, Yuling Luo +1inventors
InventorsShiping Chen, Yuling Luo, Anthony C. Chen
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Abstract
A capillary bundle having reaction wells in one end of the capillaries is disclosed. The reaction wells serve as sites for hybridization, compound reaction, and drug identification for instance. The capillaries may be light-conducting capillaries. Also disclosed are various methods of identifying a target compound in a liquid carrier using this capillary bundle as well as methods of fabricating the bundle.
Claims4
A capillary bundle comprising a plurality of individual capillaries having proximal and distal ends, each of said capillaries having a channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end of the capillary and having a channel-facing wall, wherein each said channel contains a distinct probe in solution, said proximal ends of the individual capillaries are secured to one another in a solid mass such that the proximal ends of said capillaries are substantially coplanar in a static array in a facet of the solid mass, furthermore, each said proximal end comprises a reaction well fluidly connected to a channel, wherein the inner diameter of said reaction well is no less than 5 times larger than the inner diameter of said channel.
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