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Method of reducing liquid volume surrounding beads
US8927296B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-8927296-B2 |
| Application number | US-99293909-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | May 18, 2009 |
| Priority date | Apr 18, 2006 |
| Publication date | Jan 6, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 2015 |
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The invention provides droplet actuators and droplet actuator techniques. Among other things, the droplet actuators and methods are useful for manipulating beads on a droplet actuator, such as conducting droplet operations using bead-containing droplets on a droplet actuator. For example, beads may be manipulated on a droplet actuator in the context of executing a sample preparation protocol and/or an assay protocol. An output of the methods of the invention may be beads prepared for execution of an assay protocol. Another output of the methods of the invention may be results of an assay protocol executed using beads. Among the methods described herein are methods of concentrating beads in droplets, methods of washing beads, methods of suspending beads, methods of separating beads, methods of localizing beads within a droplet, methods of forming emulsions in which droplets include beads, methods of loading beads into a droplet operations gap of a droplet actuator, methods of organizing beads in a monolayer, and methods of capturing, trapping or restraining beads.
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We claim: 1. A method of reducing a liquid volume surrounding one or more magnetically responsive beads, the method comprising: (a) providing a droplet comprising the one or more magnetically responsive beads; (b) exposing the one or more magnetically responsive beads in the droplet to a first region of a magnetic field; and (c) separating the droplet from the first region of the magnetic field via electrowetting, the one or more magnetically responsive beads remaining in a su…
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- What does patent US8927296B2 cover?
- The invention provides droplet actuators and droplet actuator techniques. Among other things, the droplet actuators and methods are useful for manipulating beads on a droplet actuator, such as conducting droplet operations using bead-containing droplets on a droplet actuator. For example, beads may be manipulated on a droplet actuator in the context of executing a sample preparation protocol an…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Sista Ramakrishna, Pamula Vamsee, Sudarsan Arjun, and 3 more
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification B01L3/502792. Mapped technology areas include Operations & Transport.
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- Publication date Tue Jan 06 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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