Patents, Bio Rad Laboratories Inc, 10x Genomics, Microfluidics, Single Cell Sequencing.
because oil can wick into the channel by itself and you won’t be able to control how much oil is pushed from the top to the bottom in step 0. More importantly, the step coats the channel to make it “fluorinated” and thus outside the scope of Bio-Rad’s claim. Step 1 and 2 of the new process is the