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    Biosens Bioelectron. 2002 Jun;17(6-7):605-18.

    An integrated, stacked microlaboratory for biological agent detection with DNA and immunoassays.

    Yang JM, Bell J, Huang Y, Tirado M, Thomas D, Forster AH, Haigis RW, Swanson PD, Wallace RB, Martinsons B, Krihak M.

    Nanogen, Inc., 10398 Pacific Center Court, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. jyang@nanogen.com

    An integrated, stacked microlaboratory for performing automated electric-field-driven immunoassays and DNA hybridization assays was developed. The stacked microlaboratory was fabricated by orderly laminating several different functional layers (all 76 x 76 mm(2)) including a patterned polyimide layer with a flip-chip bonded CMOS chip, a pressure sensitive acrylic adhesive (PSA) layer with a fluidic cutout, an optically transparent polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) film, a PSA layer with a via, a patterned polyimide layer with a flip-chip bonded silicon chip, a PSA layer with a fluidic cutout, and a glass cover plate layer. Versatility of the stacked microlaboratory was demonstrated by various automated assays. Escherichia coli bacteria and Alexa-labeled protein toxin staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) were detected by electric-field-driven immunoassays on a single chip with a specific-to-nonspecific signal ratios of 4.2:1 and 3.0:1, respectively. Furthermore, by integrating the microlaboratory with a module for strand displacement amplification (SDA), the identification of the Shiga-like toxin gene (SLT1) from E. coli was accomplished within 2.5 h starting from a dielectrophoretic concentration of intact E. coli bacteria and finishing with an electric-field-driven DNA hybridization assay, detected by fluorescently labeled DNA reporter probes. The integrated microlaboratory can be potentially used in a wide range of applications including detection of bacteria and biowarfare agents, and genetic identification.

    PMID: 11959484 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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