1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an optically induced cell lysis biochip, and more particularly, to a cell lysis method using a system which includes said biochip.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the biomedical field, researches focusing on a specific component within a single cell tend to become more and more sophisticated recently. Therefore, to extract the target proteins, nucleic acids or organelles from the tissues or cells of an organism has also been an important issue. However, traditional tools, including chemical, thermal, electric, ultrasonic, laser, and mechanical approaches, can only lyse a group of cells in a cell-containing solution and further obtain their cell components for study. If one intends to focus the study on the component of a specific cell, he needs to further separate within the group of cells using other methods so as to extract the target components, which is an exhausting and time-consuming process. Moreover, the cell components in the cell-containing solution, such as proteins and nucleus, would easily be denatured if the cell-containing solution is exposed under a non-physiological condition for a long time. Thus, traditional approaches as described above have prevented researchers from quickly extracting specific cell components, causing a research bottleneck in the biomedical field.
In view of the above, the present invention has been developed to provide a biochip and a system, with which a single cell can be lysed within a group of cells. Therefore, specific cell components can be further extracted for analysis with less time spent during the process.