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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
Scott T. Phillips, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andreas W. Martinez, Cambridge, MA (US);
Manish J. Butte, Boston, MA (US);
Amy Wong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Samuel W. Thomas, Boston, MA (US);
Hayat Sindi, Cambridge, GB;
Sarah J. Vella, Ontario, CA;
Emanuel Carrilho, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Katherine A. Mirica, Waltham, MA (US);
Yanyan Liu, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide lateral flow and flow-through bioassay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same. Under one aspect, an assay device includes a porous, hydrophilic medium; a fluid impervious barrier comprising polymerized photoresist, the barrier substantially permeating the thickness of the porous, hydrophilic medium and defining a boundary of an assay region within the porous, hydrophilic medium; and an assay reagent in the assay region.