Volume 51, Issue 43 pp. 10765-10769
Communication

Programmable Magnetic Tweezers and Droplet Microfluidic Device for High-Throughput Nanoliter Multi-Step Assays

Dr. Anaïs Ali-Cherif

Dr. Anaïs Ali-Cherif

Institut Curie UMR 168, Research Center, CNRS, UMR168, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (France)

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Stefano Begolo

Dr. Stefano Begolo

Institut Curie UMR 168, Research Center, CNRS, UMR168, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (France)

Current address: California Institute of technology 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 101-20, Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA)

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Stéphanie Descroix

Dr. Stéphanie Descroix

Institut Curie UMR 168, Research Center, CNRS, UMR168, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (France)

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Dr. Jean-Louis Viovy

Dr. Jean-Louis Viovy

Institut Curie UMR 168, Research Center, CNRS, UMR168, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (France)

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Dr. Laurent Malaquin

Corresponding Author

Dr. Laurent Malaquin

Institut Curie UMR 168, Research Center, CNRS, UMR168, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (France)

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First published: 26 September 2012
Citations: 63

This work was supported in part by EU project NADINE (FP7-NMP: 246513) and by the Equipex/Idex ANR program for the IPGG project. A.A.-C. acknowledges a PhD fellowship from the French Ministry of Defense; S.B. was supported by a Curie Institute International PhD fellowship.

Graphical Abstract

Tweezing out the answer: A microfluidic device combining droplets (less than 100 nL) and magnetic particles (see scheme) was implemented for fast heterogeneous multiplexed assays. Magnetic tweezers can perform the manipulations required in an immunoassay (capture, extraction, mixing, and rinsing). This method was applied to the diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism with 14 pM sensitivity.

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