Microfluidic system and method of use thereof
AssigneeNew York Stem Cell Foundation, Inc.
InventorsScott Noggle, Stephen Chang
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Abstract
This invention concerns an integrated microfluidic system that utilizes microfluidic chip technology to receive a patient sample including cells, expand the cells, reprogram the expanded cells and then store the reprogrammed cells in a microfluidic chip. These microfluidic chips with stored reprogrammed cells may then be used in scenarios of genetic differentiation into specific cell types. Overall this system and workflow is suitable as a hospital based device that will allow the generation of iPSCs from every patient for downstream diagnostic or therapeutic use.
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A microfluidic system for processing a biological sample comprising:
- a) one or more microfluidic units operable to process the sample, the processing comprising:
- i) expanding isolated cells to produce a population of expanded cells;
- ii) reprogramming the isolated cells or the expanded cells to produce a population of reprogrammed cells;
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- iii) storing cells from one or more of (i) or (ii);
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- b) one or more computer memory modules containing instructions, and programmed for controlling one or more of processes (i)-(iii);
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- c) one or more computer processor modules programmed to execute the instructions,
- wherein the one or more microfluidic units comprises a plurality of flow channels.
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