Microfluidic Devices for High Throughput Screening of Cell-Cell Interactions

    公开(公告)号:US20240182849A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18503723

    申请日:2023-11-07

    IPC分类号: C12N5/00 B01L3/00

    摘要: Disclosed are methods and microfluidic devices for successfully co-encapsulating two or more cells in a high-throughput, high efficiency manner. Cells are organized into two or more ordered streams flowing through separate microchannels of the microfluidic device. Cells in ordered streams are sufficiently spaced such that at a junction of the microfluidic device, single droplets are generated that include exactly one cell from the first ordered stream of cells and at least one cell from the second ordered stream of cells. Single droplets including two or more cells are useful for performing assays (e.g., high throughput cell-cell interaction assays).

    BIOLOGICAL PARTICLE ENRICHMENT APPARATUS AND PICO-DROPLET GENERATOR THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20240139734A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18132492

    申请日:2023-04-10

    IPC分类号: B01L3/00

    摘要: A biological particle enrichment apparatus and a pico-droplet generator thereof are provided. The pico-droplet generator includes a container, a hollow needle connected to the container, a first piezoelectric member disposed on the container, and a second piezoelectric member disposed on the hollow needle. The container can receive a liquid specimen having biological particles. The hollow needle and the container are fluid communicated with each other, and an inner diameter of the container is within a range from 5 times to 30 times of an inner diameter of the hollow needle. The first piezoelectric member is annularly disposed on a surrounding lateral side of the container, and enables the biological particles in the container to move along a direction away from the surrounding lateral side by vibrating the container. The second piezoelectric member can squeeze the hollow needle, so that the liquid specimen flows outwardly to form a pico-droplet.

    METHOD FOR RAPID AND PRECISE MANIPULATION OF A TINY VOLUME OF LIQUID DROPLETS

    公开(公告)号:US20170315024A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-02

    申请号:US15494045

    申请日:2017-04-21

    发明人: Liqiu WANG Xin TANG

    IPC分类号: G01N1/14 B01L3/00 B65D83/00

    摘要: An apparatus and method are provided for rapid and precise manipulation and transfer of tiny liquid droplets. by dynamically introducing microstructures with relatively high surface energy to a non-wettable surface, which surface has in-situ switchable adhesion to liquid droplets. By penetrating microstructures on the background surface, the chemical property of the surface is locally modified. Capillary bridges will form between microstructures and liquid droplets which lead to high adhesive forces. When the microstructures are retracted, the capillary bridges either pinch-off or recede, which drastically reduces the adhesion. With proper chemical modification, the surface can either manipulate a liquid droplet in air or in an immiscible carrier liquid. Tiny droplets with volumes down to nanoliter scale can be prepared and dispensed by using the surface.