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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2018
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Plc, Oxford, GB;
David Waterman, Oxford, GB;
Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC, Oxford, GB;
Abstract
A microfluidic device for analysing a test liquid comprises: a sensor (), such as a membrane provided with nanopores, provided in a sensing chamber (); a sensing chamber inlet channel () and a sensing chamber outlet channel (), each connecting to the sensing chamber for respectively passing liquid into and out of the sensing chamber, and a reservoir () forming a sample input port to the microfluidic device, the reservoir being in fluid communication with the sensing chamber inlet channel (); a liquid collection channel (); a barrier () between an end of the sensing chamber outlet channel () and the liquid collection channel (); a first seal (), covering the sample input port: a second seal (), covering the end of the sensing chamber outlet channel (), thereby preventing liquid from flowing from the sensing chamber (), over the barrier (), into the liquid collection channel (); wherein the microfluidic device is filled with a liquid from the first seal () at the sample input port to the second seal (), such that the sensor () is covered by liquid and unexposed to a gas or gas/liquid interface; and wherein the first and second seals () are removable to cause the liquid to flow between the reservoir and the end of the sensing chamber outlet and over the barrier.