Abstract
We present a novel integrated, centrifugo-pneumatic micro-homogenizer (μHomogenizer) for automated sample preparation and total RNA extraction from whole blood. Using a Trizol based protocol, this novel μHomogenizer efficiently lyses whole blood spiked with E. coli, retains the organic-mixed fraction and yields the aqueous phase with the total RNA content. By the interplay of microfluidic design and a protocol of rotational frequencies, we concatenate (and parallelize) a sequence of five subsequent liquid handling operations that complete in less than 10 minutes. A comparison of the total nucleotide content yields similar performance as conventional, essentially manual off-disc sample preparation methods.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII |
| Subtitle of host publication | The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013 |
| Pages | 2548-2551 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 2013 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 16 Jun 2013 → 20 Jun 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Barcelona |
| Period | 16/06/13 → 20/06/13 |
Keywords
- bacterial infections
- On-disc diagnostics
- RNA
- spiked blood
- three-phase extraction