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Differential white cell count by centrifugal microfluidics

14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010

Schaff, U.Y.; Tentori, A.M.; Sommer, G.J.

We present a method for counting white blood cells that is uniquely compatible with centrifugation based microfluidics. Blood is deposited on top of one or more layers of density media within a microfluidic disk. Spinning the disk causes the cell populations within whole blood to settle through the media, reaching an equilibrium based on the density of each cell type. Separation and fluorescence measurement of cell types stained with a DNA dye is demonstrated using this technique. The integrated signal from bands of fluorescent microspheres is shown to be proportional to their initial concentration in suspension.

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Microscale isoelectric fractionation using immobilized ph-specific membranes for multi-dimensional analysis

14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010

Mai, Junyu M.; Sommer, G.J.; Hatch, Anson H.

We report on advancements of our microscale isoelectric fractionation (μIEFr) methodology for fast on-chip separation and concentration of proteins based on their isoelectric points (pI). We establish that proteins can be fractionated depending on posttranslational modifications into different pH specific bins, from where they can be efficiently transferred to downstream membranes for additional processing and analysis. This technology can enable on-chip multidimensional glycoproteomics analysis, as a new approach to expedite biomarker identification and verification.

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Microscale isoelectric fractionation using immobilized pH-specific membranes for multi-dimensional analysis

Sommer, G.J.; Hatch, Anson H.

We report on advancements of our microscale isoelectric fractionation ({mu}IEFr) methodology for fast on-chip separation and concentration of proteins based on their isoelectric points (pI). We establish that proteins can be fractionated depending on posttranslational modifications into different pH specific bins, from where they can be efficiently transferred to downstream membranes for additional processing and analysis. This technology can enable on-chip multidimensional glycoproteomics analysis, as a new approach to expedite biomarker identification and verification.

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Precise microscale polymer gradients applied to isoelectric focusing and pore limit electrophoresis

12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - The Proceedings of MicroTAS 2008 Conference

Sommer, G.J.; Singh, Anup K.; Hatch, Anson H.

We demonstrate the power of our technique for establishing and immobilizing well-defined polymer gradients in microchannels by fabricating two miniaturized analytical platforms: microscale immobilized pH gradients (μIPGs) for rapid and high resolution isoelectric focusing (IEF) applications, and polyacrylamide porosity gradients to achieve microscale pore limit electrophoresis (μPLE) in which species are separated based on molecular size by driving them toward the pore size at which migration ceases. Both separation techniques represent the first microscale implementation of their respective methodologies.

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