Method and apparatus for sorting biological cells with a MEMS device
Patent Number: 6838056
Date of First Priority Issue: Saturday June 8th, 2002
Date Issued: Tuesday January 4th, 2005
Assignee: Innovative Micro Technology (Goleta, CA)
Inventor: Foster, John Stuart (Santa Barbara, CA)
From Class: Extraction/Preservation
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This patent covers a medical device that is useful for purifying hematopoietic stem cells. The medical device selects stem cells but not contaminating cancer cells, and is therefore useful for treatment of cancer patients by purifying autologous stem cells before high dose chemotherapy so that the stem cells can be re-introduced in order to accelerate reconstitution of hematopoiesis.
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