Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Single cell microfluidic device
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Application No.: US15288969Application Date: 2016-10-07
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Publication No.: US09862941B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Abraham P. Lee , Do-Hyun Lee , H. Kumar Wickramasinghe , Yinglei Tao , Xuan Li , Yue Yun
- Applicant: The Regents of the University of California , Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IA Johnston US CA Oakland
- Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.,THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.,THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee Address: US IA Johnston US CA Oakland
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
- Main IPC: C12Q1/68
- IPC: C12Q1/68 ; C12N15/10 ; B01L3/00

Abstract:
Methods of non-destructively obtaining the genotype of a plant cell from a plant sample are disclosed. The plant cell is isolated from a plant cell sample using an integrated microfluidic device. The integrated microfluidic device includes an individual cell trap located downstream from a microfluidic channel and, the microfluidic device is configured to trap the plant cell in the individual cell trap. mRNA is extracted from the plant cell by contacting the plant cell with an atomic force microscope (AFM) probe and by attracting mRNA from loci of interest to the probe end using a dielectrophoresis DEP force under the alternating current (AC) field applied to the probe. The genotype of the plant cell is determined from cDNA obtained from the extracted mRNA. Alternatively, the mRNA is analyzed to determine gene expression patterns of the plant cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170107507A1 SINGLE CELL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-04-20
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