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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2010
Sang-hyun OH, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Amarendra Kumar Singh, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Yanting Zhang, Goleta, CA (US);
Dharmakirthi Nawarathna, Tustin, CA (US);
Unyoung Kim, Goleta, CA (US);
Patrick Sean Daugherty, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Hyongsok Soh, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Brian Scott Ferguson, Goleta, CA (US);
Sang-Hyun Oh, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Amarendra Kumar Singh, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Yanting Zhang, Goleta, CA (US);
Dharmakirthi Nawarathna, Tustin, CA (US);
Unyoung Kim, Goleta, CA (US);
Patrick Sean Daugherty, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Hyongsok Soh, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Brian Scott Ferguson, Goleta, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A microfluidic device may employ one or more sorting stations for separating target species from other species in a sample. The separation is driven by magnetophoresis. A sorting station generally includes separate buffer and sample streams. A magnetic field gradient applied to the sorting station deflects the flow path of magnetic particles (which selectively label the target species) from a sample stream into a buffer stream. The buffer stream leaving the sorting station is used to detect or further process purified target species labeled with the magnetic particles.