US Patent Issued to Water Bear Health Technology (Nantong) on March 25 for "Microfluidic chip and manufacture method thereof, and cell separation and single-cell western blotting method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,580, issued on March 25, was assigned to Water Bear Health Technology (Nantong) Co. LTD. (Nantong, China).

"Microfluidic chip and manufacture method thereof, and cell separation and single-cell western blotting method" was invented by Xianting Ding (Shanghai), Ainur Abula (Shanghai), Ting Zhang (Shanghai) and Haiyang Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip comprises: a first unit which has a channel for a cell sample to pass through and is configured to separate circulating tumor cells in the cell sample; a second unit, a front end of which communicates with a tail end of the first unit, and the second unit ...