摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, apparatus and system for separating blood and other types of cellular components, and capable of being combined with holographic optical trapping manipulation or other forms of optical tweezing.SOLUTION: A method for separating blood into components includes: providing a first flow having a plurality of blood components; providing a second flow; contacting the first flow with the second flow to provide a first separation region, and then performing contact; and differentially sedimenting a first blood cellular component of the plurality of blood components into the second flow while concurrently maintaining a second blood cellular component of the plurality of blood components in the first flow, and then conducting different sedimentation. The second flow having the first blood cellular component is then differentially removed from the first flow having the second blood cellular component. Holographic optical traps may also be utilized in conjunction with the various flows to move selected components from one flow to another, as part of or in addition to a separation stage. |