Biological micro-reactor suitable for high throughput screening, forms alternating mobile liquid reactors and liquid separators in parallel capillaries

摘要

A biological micro-reactor suitable for high throughput screening, is new. The injection system (10) introduces two separate liquids in alternation, into micro-channels. Injection of one liquid forms a mobile reaction chamber. Injection of the other forms a separator. Progress of one liquid is controlled in each micro-channel, at a zone of intervention. A volume for liquid injection is delimited. Control arrests or decelerates a liquid in the microchannel, exploiting a physical or chemical property associated with the liquid. This action has no direct effect on the other liquid. An Independent claim is included for the corresponding method, which forms mobile liquid reaction chambers separated by a second non-miscible liquid. Samples are injected simultaneously into the reaction chambers.