Microfluidic system and method with focused energy apparatus
US11796449B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 19, 2019 |
| Grant date | Oct 24, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 3, 2042 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2015/1413
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of inseminating an animal including flowing a stream of a population of sperm cells through a channel, differentiating the sperm cells into two subpopulations of X-chromosome containing sperm cells and Y-chromosome containing sperm cells, selecting a desired subpopulation, ablating an undesired subpopulation, and collecting both the subpopulations of sperm cells including the desired subpopulation and the ablated undesired subpopulation together, wherein the collected population of sperm cells is used to fertilize an egg.
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