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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2010
Aldrich Lau, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joon Yang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Huan Phan, Belmont, CA (US);
Steven Sherwood, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hans Fuernkranz, Saratoga, CA (US);
Aldrich Lau, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joon Yang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Huan Phan, Belmont, CA (US);
Steven Sherwood, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hans Fuernkranz, Saratoga, CA (US);
Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for sorting cells in a biological sample comprising a first type of cells and a second type of cells may comprise introducing the biological sample into a chamber comprising a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is associated with a transparent electrode and the second surface is associated with a photoconductive portion of an electrode. The method may further comprise moving incident light and the photoconductive portion relative to one another so as to illuminate regions of the photoconductive portion and modulate an electric field in the chamber in proximity to the illuminated regions. The method may further comprise separating the first type of cells from the second type of cells in the chamber via dielectrophoretic movement of the first type of cells and the second type of cells caused by the modulated electric field, wherein a dielectrophoretic characteristic of at least one of the first type of cells and the second type of cells has been modified.