The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or detection of particles, such as cells and/or beads. The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or analysis of particles,
The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or detection of particles, such as cells and/or beads. The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or analysis of particles, such as cells, viruses, organelles, beads, and/or vesicles. The invention also provides microfluidic mechanisms for carrying out these manipulations and analyses. These mechanisms may enable controlled input, movement/positioning, retention/localization, treatment, measurement, release, and/or output of particles. Furthermore, these mechanisms may be combined in any suitable order and/or employed for any suitable number of times within a system. Accordingly, these combinations may allow particles to be sorted, cultured, mixed, treated, and/or assayed, among others, as single particles, mixed groups of particles, arrays of particles, heterogeneous particle sets, and/or homogeneous particle sets, among others, in series and/or in parallel. In addition, these combinations may enable microfluidic systems to be reused. Furthermore, these combinations may allow the response of particles to treatment to be measured on a shorter time scale than was previously possible. Therefore, systems of the invention may allow a broad range of cell and particle assays, such as drug screens, cell characterizations, research studies, and/or clinical analyses, among others, to be scaled down to microfluidic size. Such scaled-down assays may use less sample and reagent, may be less labor intensive, and/or may be more informative than comparable macrofluidic assays.
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What is claimed is: 1. A method for perfusing cells with a reagent comprising the steps of: (a) providing a microfluidic device having (i) a cell growth chamber, a cell inlet in communication with said chamber, said cell inlet having an inlet valve in operable communication therewith to control flu
What is claimed is: 1. A method for perfusing cells with a reagent comprising the steps of: (a) providing a microfluidic device having (i) a cell growth chamber, a cell inlet in communication with said chamber, said cell inlet having an inlet valve in operable communication therewith to control fluid flow through said cell inlet into said chamber, wherein said cells can pass through said cell inlet into said chamber when said inlet valve is open, but cannot pass through said cell inlet when said inlet valve is closed; and, (ii) a reagent inlet for inputting said reagent into said chamber, said reagent inlet having a reagent valve in operable communication with said reagent inlet for controlling fluid flow through said reagent inlet into said chamber, said cell inlet and/or said chamber having a retention mechanism for retaining said cells in said chamber while permitting flow of said reagent into said chamber when said reagent valve is open; wherein when said cells are loaded into said chamber, and said inlet valve is closed, said cells are retained in said chamber by the retention mechanism while said reagent valve is open and closed; (b) opening said cell inlet valve and introducing said cells into said chamber; (c) closing said cell inlet valve; (d) opening said reagent valve to introduce said reagent into said chamber; and, (e) introducing said reagent into said chamber while retaining said cells inside of said chamber thereby perfusing said cells with said reagent. 2. The method recited in claim 1 wherein the microfluidic device further comprises a release mechanism for releasing the cells from the retention mechanism, the method further comprising releasing the cells from the retention mechanism. 3. The method recited in claim 2 wherein the microfluidic device further comprises an output mechanism for outputting the cells from the microfluidic device, the method further comprising outputting the cells from the microfluidic device with the output mechanism. 4. The method recited in claim 2 wherein the microfluidic device further comprises a cell culture mechanism for culturing the cells, the method further comprising culturing the cells in the cell culture mechanism. 5. The method recited in claim 1 wherein: the microfluidic device comprises a multi-layered elastomeric block having a control layer; and the inlet valve comprises an elastomeric membrane comprised by the control layer and deflectable into an elastomeric passage in a fluid layer to selectively determine a flow rate or flow path of a fluid in the elastomeric passage. 6. The method recited in claim 1 wherein the microfluidic device further comprises a treatment mechanism in communication with the retention mechanism, the method further comprising selectively treating at least one of the cells with the treatment mechanism to produce a treatment response while the at least one of the cells is retained within the retention mechanism. 7. The method recited in claim 6 wherein the cells are selected from the group consisting of eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells, plants cells, animal cells, hybridoma cells, bacterial cells, and yeast cells. 8. The method recited in claim 7 further comprising isolating the at least one of the cells from a remainder of the cells. 9. The method recited in claim 7 wherein: the at least one of the cells comprises an egg or an embryo; and treating the at least one of the cells comprises a step towards in vitro fertilizing of the egg or manipulating the embryo. 10. The method recited in claim 1 wherein the cell inlet comprises a receptacle or well in fluid communication with the chamber, the method further comprising introducing fluid containing the cells into the receptacle or well.
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