Patent 7691580 was granted and assigned to Corning Incorporated on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems, methods and kits that utilize uniquely coded microparticles for performing protein assays are provided. The uniquely coded microparticles are used as a substrate for reverse protein delivery into cells. The microparticles and methods offer the possibility of studying the biological functions of either a single protein of interest in multiple cell types per assay or multiple proteins in a single cell type.