DEVICES AND METHOD FOR USING CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION TO DRIVE FLUID MOVEMENT IN A MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM WITH ON-BOARD INFORMATICS

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08761063

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This invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing microanalytic and microsynthetic analyses and procedures. The invention provides a microsystem platform and a micromanipulation device for manipulating the platform that utilizes the centripetal force resulting from rotation of the platform to motivate fluid movement through microchannels. The microsystem platforms of the invention are also provided having system informatics and data acquisition, analysis and storage and retrieval informatics encoded on the surface of the disk opposite to the surface containing the fluidic components. Methods specific for the apparatus of the invention for performing any of a wide variety of microanalytical or microsynthetic processes are provided.

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TECAN TRADING AGSEESTRASSE 103 MANNEDORF 8708

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COREY, GEORGE D NEWTON, MA 6 755
KIEFFER-HIGGINS, STEPHEN G DORCHESTER, MA 21 2109
MIAN, ALEC CAMBRIDGE, MA 40 2290

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