MEMS technology for Artificial Cells

Abstract

This paper describes several methods for the study of artificial cells. Since MEMS and microfluidic technologies are very powerful tools to deal with extremely small amount of wet-materials such as DNA, proteins, lipids and so on, these technologies are suitable for reconstruction of the cell systems. Uniform sized liposomes are produced with a "blowing vesicles" method. Artificial planar lipid bilayer array is formed by contact method where the two kind of monolayer bring into contact. Dynamic micro array has been developed for handling cells, beads, and vesicles for the high throughput analysis.