Figure 7

Our device is consistent and effective when used for transfection of clinically-relevant numbers of cells (approximately 200 million–500 million cells per donor). (A) Representative data from one primary human T-cell donor. All of the T cells from one buffy coat donor (approximately 500 million cells total) were activated, resuspended in BTXpress electroporation media at 50 million cells/ml, and then transfected with mCherry-encoding mRNA (50 μg/ml) continuously in a single microfluidic electroporation channel over a time span of approximately 20 min. Samples taken at approximately 4-min intervals show that transfection efficiency and viability (measured 24 h post-transfection) are consistent throughout processing. (B) T cells were isolated from buffy coat samples from three independent, healthy donors and activated. Each donor produced approximately 200 million–500 million T cells. The entirety of each donor sample was then transfected with mCherry mRNA. Average transfection efficiency and viability ratio across the three donors is shown (n = 3), where error bars represent standard error of the mean. This figure was generated using GraphPad Prism software.