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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2013
The University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
William Perry Janzen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Samantha Gail Pattenden, Mebane, NC (US);
Chatura Nadisha Jayakody, Morrisville, NC (US);
Jason Eric Streeter, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Paul Alexander Dayton, Carrboro, NC (US);
Cameron Champion Wood, Raleigh, NC (US);
Siddharth Kaup Shenoy, Durham, NC (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for using encapsulated microbubbles to process biological samples are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for using encapsulated microbubbles to process a biological sample includes creating a mixture comprising encapsulated microbubbles mixed with a biological sample and adding activation energy to the mixture to cause at least some of the microbubbles to oscillate or burst and thereby process the sample, including effecting cell lysis, shearing DNA, and/or performing tissue dispersion.