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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Newton, MA (US);
Joseph L. Charest, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joseph Cuiffi, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Alla Epshteyn, Brookline, MA (US);
Angela B. Holton, Tampa, FL (US);
James Ching-Ming Hsiao, Watertown, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides microfluidic devices, methods for imaging cells, and methods for preparing such microfluidic devices. The microfluidic devices are contemplated to provide advantages for use in imaging of cells and subcellular compartments in an environment that mimics in vivo conditions. The microfluidic devices can used with a microscope equipped with an oil emersion objective lens.