摘要:
A method for transporting in a microfluidic conduit an aliquot of a liquid, possibly containing a substance I, which is dissolved in the liquid and typically exhibits charged groups and/or hydrophobic groups. The method is characterized in that the liquid contains an amphiphilic macromolecular substance.
摘要:
A microfluidic device comprising one, two or more microchannel structures (101a-h), each of which comprises a reaction microcavity (104a-h) intended for retaining a solid phase material in the form of a wet porous bed. Each of said one, two or more microchannel structures comprises the solid phase material in a dry state together with a bed-preserving agent comprising one or more compounds having bed-preserving activity.
摘要:
A method and a system for grading the confidence of a result of an experiment that comprises one or more biological and/or chemical reactions and is carried out in a microchannel structure (110a) of a microfluidic device, said confidence determination comprises the steps of: i) detecting within each of at least one liquid detector segment of said microchannel structure (110a) the presence or absence of liquid and/or gas during a period of time for which it is known if liquid and/or gas shall be present and/or absent in the segment, and ii) assigning a lowered confidence to said result if the presence and/or absence of liquid and/or gas found in step (i) is deviating from what it shall be.
摘要:
A method for quantifying n different analytes that are present in one or more liquid samples by performing n different affinity assay formats, each of which is dedicated for a particular one of the analytes. The characteristic feature is that each format is performed in a separate microchannel structures of a microfluidic device that contains at least n microchannel structures, and comprises formation and measurement of an immobilized product (affinity complex) that is formed on a solid phase that is placed in a microcavity of the microchannel structure used for the format in order to quantify the analyte to which the format is dedicated.
摘要:
A collection of one or more microfluidic devices which together carry a plurality of microchannel structures each of which comprises a reaction microcavity (104a-h) in which there is a solid phase with an immobilized affinity ligand L, characterized in that (i) the plurality is divided into sets of microchannel structures, and (ii) the affinity ligand L is directed to the same counterpart (binder, B) independent of set, and (iii) the sets differ in a) the capacity per reaction microcavity and/or the capacity/unit volume of the solid phase in a reaction microcavity for binder B, and/or b) the base matrix of the solid phase between the sets but are equal within each set.
摘要:
The invention is related to a method for quantification of a first dissociation equilibrium constant Kd1 for a complex AB between interactants A and B relative to a second dissociation equilibrium constant Kd2 for a complex CD between interactants C and D.
摘要:
A microscale method for the characterization of one or more reaction variables that influence the formation or dissociation of an affinity complex comprising a ligand and a binder, which have mutual affinity for each other. The method is characterized in comprising the steps of: (i) providing a microfluidic device comprising a microchannel structures that are under a common flow control, each microchannel structure comprising a reaction microactivity; (ii) performing essentially in parallel an experiment in each of two or more of the plurality of microchannel structures, the experiment in these two or more microchannel structures comprising either a) formation of an immobilized form of the complex and retaining under flow conditions said form within the reaction microactivity, or b) dissociating, preferably under flow condition, an immobilized form of the complex which has been included in the microfluidic device provided in step (i), at least one reaction variable varies or is uncharacterized for said two or more microchannel structures while the remaining reaction variables are kept essentially constant; (iii) measuring the presentation of the complex in said reaction microactivity in said two or more microchannel structures; and (iv) characterizing said one or more reaction variables based on the values for presentation obtained in step (iii).
摘要:
A microscale method for the characterization of one or more reaction variables that influence the formation or dissociation of an affinity complex comprising a ligand and a binder, which have mutual affinity for each other. The method is characterized in comprising the steps of: (i) providing a microfluidic device comprising a microchannel structures that are under a common flow control, each microchannel structure comprising a reaction microactivity; (ii) performing essentially in parallel an experiment in each of two or more of the plurality of microchannel structures, the experiment in these two or more microchannel structures comprising either a) formation of an immobilized form of the complex and retaining under flow conditions said form within the reaction microactivity, or b) dissociating, preferably under flow condition, an immobilized form of the complex which has been included in the microfluidic device provided in step (i), at least one reaction variable varies or is uncharacterized for said two or more microchannel structures while the remaining reaction variables are kept essentially constant; (iii) measuring the presentation of the complex in said reaction microactivity in said two or more microchannel structures; and (iv) characterizing said one or more reaction variables based on the values for presentation obtained in step (iii).
摘要:
A method for the determination of an analyte which is a) present in a liquid sample 1 suspected of containing the analyte, and b) at least bivalent with respect to simultaneous affinity binding of at least two binding structures BSs. The method comprises formation of an affinity complex that comprises the analyte and an affinity reactant 1 that is immobilized to a solid phase. The method comprises the steps of: (i) providing a microfluidic flow path that comprises a reaction cavity containing a solid phase to which affinity reactant 1 is immobilized, (ii) providing sample 1 upstream of the cavity and flowing it through the cavity for the formation of the affinity complex under flow conditions, (iii) measuring the amount of complex formed in the solid phase by a) incorporating an analytically detectable and soluble affinity reactant 2 that comprises a binding structure BS into the complex subsequent to step (ii), and b) measuring the amount of affinity reactant 2 incorporated.
摘要:
A method of the quantitative determination of an immunoglobulin (Ig) of a certain class (IgX) in a liquid sample comprising the step of forming a complex that comprises a ternary affinity complex in which IgX is sandwiched between two affinity reactants 1 and 2 (R1 and R2, respectively).