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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Inventors:
Robbyn K. Anand, Ames, IA (US);
Min Li, Ames, IA (US);
Assignee:
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B03C 5/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 15/02 (2006.01); G01N 15/14 (2006.01); B03C 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); B01L 3/50273 (2013.01); B01L 3/502746 (2013.01); B01L 3/502769 (2013.01); B03C 5/005 (2013.01); B03C 5/026 (2013.01); C12M 47/04 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0652 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0668 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0645 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0424 (2013.01); B03C 2201/26 (2013.01); G01N 15/0266 (2013.01); G01N 15/1484 (2013.01); G01N 2015/149 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microfluidic device comprising one or more fluidic microchannels and one or more arrays of wireless bipolar electrodes is disclosed. The disclosed microfluidic device can be used to separate cells, especially rare cells, from its biological matrix. The disclosed device can isolate cells in a high-throughput fashion and without any modification or labelling to the cells. Cells isolated using the disclosed devices does not lose their vitality.