INTEGRATED SAMPLE PREPARATION AND AMPLIFICATION FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION FROM BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES

• Main Author: NASARABADI SHANAVAZ L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.04.2011
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

Beads are used to perform both a sample preparation and amplification process within a single processing chamber. A fluid sample including a plurality of cells is introduced into a processing chamber already including a plurality of beads. The plurality of cells are lysed within the processing chamb...