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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2024
Shennon Biotechnologies Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Yih Yang Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kaveh Milaninia, San Jose, CA (US);
Li Sun, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shennon Biotechnologies Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and microfluidic devices for successfully co-encapsulating two or more cells in a high-throughput, high efficiency manner. Cells are organized into two or more ordered streams flowing through separate microchannels of the microfluidic device. Cells in ordered streams are sufficiently spaced such that at a junction of the microfluidic device, single droplets are generated that include exactly one cell from the first ordered stream of cells and at least one cell from the second ordered stream of cells. Single droplets including two or more cells are useful for performing assays (e.g., high throughput cell-cell interaction assays).