Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microfluidic device designed for the use in performing various chemical and biochemical analyses from the advantageous point of view achieved by using the microfluidic device and eliminating the present limitations of conventional devices. SOLUTION: This microfluidic device includes (a) a flow channel formed in an elastic material and (b) a plurality of blind flow channels, fluid-communicating with the flow channel, and the region of each of the blind flow channels is equipped with the blind flow channel specifying a reaction site. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Un dispositivo microfluídico (200), que comprende componentes elastoméricos, y que tiene un canal de flujo (204, 702), en el que dicho canal de flujo tiene una pluralidad de canales de flujo ciego (206) que se abren hacia el interior y están en comunicación de fluidos con el canal de flujo, caracterizándose cada canal de flujo ciego por tener una parte de apertura, una parte de canal, y una parte final, y en el que una región del final de cada canal de flujo ciego define un sitio de reacción (208, 706), en el que cada canal de flujo ciego está asociado con una válvula (212) que cuando se cierra aísla el sitio de reacción del canal de flujo, y caracterizado por que las válvulas asociadas con cada una de la pluralidad de canales de flujo ciego en comunicación de fluidos con el canal de flujo están bajo el control de un canal de control común (210, 712) y se cierran o abren de forma coordinada.
Abstract:
A variety of elastomeric-based microfluidic devices and methods for using an d 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 reagent s 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 ge ne expression analyses.
Abstract:
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.