Lateral flow and flow-through bioassay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G01N-021/77
출원번호
US-0730028
(2012-12-28)
등록번호
US-8603832
(2013-12-10)
발명자
/ 주소
Whitesides, George M.
Phillips, Scott T.
Martinez, Andreas W.
Butte, Manish J.
Wong, Amy
Thomas, Samuel W.
Sindi, Hayat
Vella, Sarah J.
Carrilho, Emanuel
Mirica, Katherine A.
Liu, Yanyan
출원인 / 주소
President and Fellows of Harvard College
대리인 / 주소
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
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초록▼
Embodiments of the invention provide lateral flow and flow-through bioassay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same. Under one aspect, an assay device includes a porous, hydrophilic medium; a fluid impervious barrier comprising polymerized photoresi
Embodiments of the invention provide lateral flow and flow-through bioassay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same. Under one aspect, an assay device includes a porous, hydrophilic medium; a fluid impervious barrier comprising polymerized photoresist, the barrier substantially permeating the thickness of the porous, hydrophilic medium and defining a boundary of an assay region within the porous, hydrophilic medium; and an assay reagent in the assay region.
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1. An assay device comprising: a plurality of porous, hydrophilic media in the form of substantially planar sheets disposed face-to-face and separated from each other by a fluid-impermeable layer which defines an opening for fluid communication between adjacent sheets,a said sheet comprising a patte
1. An assay device comprising: a plurality of porous, hydrophilic media in the form of substantially planar sheets disposed face-to-face and separated from each other by a fluid-impermeable layer which defines an opening for fluid communication between adjacent sheets,a said sheet comprising a pattern of fluid-impervious barriers substantially inserting through the thickness of the sheet thereby to define a boundary of an assay region comprising a channel region defining a flow path within the sheet through which fluids pass, andone or more assay reagents disposed in fluid communication with the assay region which provide an indication in the device of a clinically relevant presence or concentration of an analyte. 2. The assay device of claim 1 comprising a said channel region defining a flow path along which fluids pass in a direction parallel to the plane of a sheet by capillary action. 3. The assay device of claim 1 or 2 comprising a channel region defining a flow path including a said opening through which fluid flows between adjacent sheets. 4. The device of claim 1, said pattern of fluid-impervious barriers defining boundaries of plural assay regions comprising plural flow paths through which fluids pass within said device, one or more said assay reagents being disposed in fluid communication with the respective assay regions which alone or together provide an indication in the device of a clinically relevant presence or concentration of one or more analytes. 5. The assay device of claim 1 or 4 wherein the assay reagent(s) provide a visible indication of a clinically relevant presence or concentration of an analyte which can be digitized to reproduce an image of said visual indication which also is clinically relevant. 6. The device of claim 5 which provides a visible indication of the concentration of an analyte. 7. The device of claim 4 comprising at least two flow paths, not in fluid communication with each other, through which fluids pass and which cross each other without mixing of fluids. 8. The device of claim 1 or 4 comprising multiple said flow paths through which fluids pass and which distribute analyte to a plurality of separated test zones. 9. The device of claim 8 comprising different assay reagents disposed in fluid communication with the separated test zones which different assay reagents provide a visible indication of the presence or concentration of one or more analytes in subsets or individual zones of said plurality of separated test zones. 10. The device of claim 1 wherein a said hydrophilic medium and a barrier together define a reservoir for receiving a first fluid, said device further comprising one or more distributing regions for receiving said first fluid from said reservoir, and a plurality of separated test zones for receiving said first fluid from said distributing regions. 11. The device of claim 10 further comprising different assay reagents disposed in a said medium for assaying said fluid in, or in fluidic communication with, different test zones. 12. The device of claim 1 further comprising a sample deposition region bounded by a said fluid-impervious barrier or by an opening in a fluid-impermeable layer disposed in face-to-face relation with a said sheet, and in fluid communication with a said flow path. 13. The device of claim 12 wherein said sample deposition region comprises a porous, hydrophilic medium. 14. The device of claim 12 further comprising a filter in fluid communication with said sample deposition region. 15. The device of claim 1 wherein said porous, hydrophilic sheet comprises a material selected from the group consisting of polymer film, nitrocellulose acetate, cellulose acetate, fibrous material, paper, and cloth. 16. The device of claim 1 wherein said barrier comprises a material selected from the group consisting of a curable polymer, polymerized photoresist, wax, and poly(dimethyl-siloxane). 17. The device of claim 1 wherein the assay reagent is selected to react to the presence of at least one of glucose, a protein, and a fat. 18. The device of claim 4 wherein said barriers physically separate individual zones of said plural assay regions from one another. 19. The device of claim 1 further comprising an imaging device which obtains a digital image of the visible indication of a clinically relevant presence or concentration of an analyte. 20. The device of claim 19 further comprising a processor in communication with the imaging device and capable of obtaining information about an analyte in the assay region based on the digital image of the assay region. 21. The assay device of claim 20 wherein the processor obtains information about the analyte based on a color intensity or position of a feature in the digital image.
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