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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Wafergen, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Syed A. Husain, Fremont, CA (US);
Bradley L. Griswold, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Slater, Fremont, CA (US);
Patricio A. Espinoza Vallejos, Fremont, CA (US);
Jude Dunne, Fremont, CA (US);
Glenn Hein, Fremont, CA (US);
Maithreyan Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Takara Bio USA, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods, systems, assemblies, and articles for capturing single cells with a capture chip. In certain embodiments, the capture chip comprises a substrate comprising a plurality of cell-sized dimples or wells that each allow a single cell to be captured from a cell suspension. In some embodiments, the dimples or wells of the capture chip align with the holes or wells of a multi-well through-hole chip, and/or a multi-well chip, such that the cell, or the contents of the single cell, may be transferred to a corresponding well of the multi-well chip. In particular embodiments, the bottom of each dimple or well of the capture chip has a positive electrical charge sufficient to attract cells from a cell suspension flowing over the dimples or wells.