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AssigneeFluidigm Corporation
InventorsMarc Unger, Ian D. Manger, Michael Lucero, Yong Yi, Emily Miyashita-Lin, Anja Wienecke, Geoffrey Facer
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A variety of elastomeric-based microfluidic devices and methods for using and manufacturing such devices are provided. Certain of the devices have arrays of reaction sites to facilitate high throughput analyses. Some devices also include reaction sites located at the end of blind channels at which reagents have been previously deposited during manufacture. The reagents become suspended once sample is introduced into the reaction site. The devices can be utilized with a variety of heating devices and thus can be used in a variety of analyses requiring temperature control, including thermocycling applications such as nucleic acid amplification reactions, genotyping and gene expression analyses.
A microfluidic device, comprising:
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The microfluidic device of claim 7, wherein the plurality of flow channels are isolated from each other such that fluid introduced into one flow channel cannot flow to another flow channel, and each flow channel comprises a single inlet at one end into which fluid can be introduced.
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A microfluidic device comprising a reaction site formed within an elastomeric substrate at which a reagent for conducting a reaction is immobilized.
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A method for conducting an analysis, comprising:
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A method for conducting an analysis, comprising:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.