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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7658827 | Rapid assembly casting system for slab gels Flat plates serving as molds and enclosures for slab gels are held together by a clamping frame in which the side edges of the plates slide into facing channels and are clamped by lever-operated cams that compress the channel walls against the plate surfaces. The jo... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7531073 | Sparsely cross-linked nanogels: a novel polymer structure for microchannel DNA sequencing The present invention is generally directed to novel polymeric materials for use in the electrophoretic separation of nucleic acids. In particular, the novel polymer materials are sparsely crosslinked nanogels, dissolved in an aqueous buffer to form solutions with m... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7399396 | Sparsely cross-linked nanogels: a novel polymer structure for microchannel DNA sequencing The present invention is generally directed to novel polymeric mateirals for use in the electrophoretic separation of nucleic acids. In particular, the novel polymer materials are sparsely crosslinked nanogels, dissolved in an aqueous buffer to form solutions with m... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7361260 | Methods, articles and kits for labeling polymer gels The invention provides methods, apparatus and kits for integrally labeling polymeric gels, such as polyacrylamide and agarose gels, with indicia that can serve, inter alia, unambiguously to identify the individual gel, using polymeric film labeled with detectable in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7323092 | Multichannel microscale system for high throughput preparative separation with comprehensive collection and analysis While the present invention has been described in conjunction with a preferred embodiment, one of ordinary skill, after reading the foregoing specification, will be able to effect various changes, substitutions of equivalents, and other alterations to the compositio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320747 | Gel for electrophoresis The present invention is directed to a solidified hybrid gel for use in an electrophoresis process, having a solidified first gel portion juxtaposed with a solidified second gel portion. The first gel portion is capable of accommodating therein one or more samples f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7279659 | Non-food warmer appliance A non-food warmer apparatus includes an enclosure having sides, a top, and a bottom defining a chamber. A drawer structure has a support member to support objects. The drawer structure is coupled to the enclosure for movement between a retracted position to warm the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7163610 | Conductive media for electrophoresis A series of low molarity conductive media based on non-buffering univalent cations, such as sodium chloride-sodium acetate (SCA), sodium boric acid (SB), lithium boric acid, and lithium acetate mitigate the “runaway” positive feedback heating loop produced by co... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159957 | Actuator for a movable portion of an article of furniture A movable portion of an article of furniture, in particular a drawer, flap or door, includes at least one preferably electrical drive unit and a triggering device for actuation of the drive unit. The triggering device is at least partially arranged at the movable po... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156969 | Microfluidic matrix localization apparatus and methods Multiphasic microfluidic apparatus for performing product fluid manipulation and separation in a single continuous unit are provided. Related methods, kits, and compositions are also provided. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128819 | Rapid assembly casting system for slab gels Flat plates serving as molds and enclosures for slab gels are held together by a clamping frame in which the side edges of the plates slide into facing channels and are clamped by lever-operated cams that compress the channel walls against the plate surfaces. The jo... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7118900 | Directed assembly of functional heterostructures The present invention relates to a systematic process for the creation of functionally organized, spatially patterned assemblies of polymer-microparticle composites including the AC electric field-mediated assembly of patterned, self-supporting organic (polymeric) f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7056426 | Pre-cast electrophoresis slab gels with extended storage life In pre-cast slab gel cassettes, the formation of pathways in which proteins can migrate between the gel and the walls of the cassette to form shadow bands is avoided by including a nonionic amphiphilic polymer in the monomer solution from which the gel is formed and... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052590 | Method and kit for the manufacture of separation gels A method for the manufacture of a separation gel, which comprises the steps: (i) providing a polymerization mixture containing a first monomer (I) having a polymerizable unsaturated structure and a second monomer (II) comprising two or more polymerizable unsaturated... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6986836 | Electrophoresis gels with incorporated indicia An electrophoresis gel is prepared with indicia incorporated into the gel itself rather than on a label or backing that is adhered to the gel. According to one method, the indicia are applied by first coating a solid surface that will be used as one internal surface... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6942775 | Vertical electrophoresis system A plugging medium is used to block the bottom opening of cassettes for vertical electrophoresis in order to facilitate filling the cassettes with separation media. Cassettes can be filled within a vertical electrophoresis system in which electrophoresis is conducted... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6926815 | Copolymers for capillary gel electrophoresis This invention relates to an electrophoresis separation medium having a gel matrix of at least one random, linear copolymer comprising a primary comonomer and at least one secondary comonomer, wherein the comonomers are randomly distributed along the copolymer chain... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6846399 | Castable three-dimensional stationary phase for electric field-driven applications A polymer material useful as the porous dielectric medium for microfluidic devices generally and electrokinetic pumps in particular. The polymer material is produced from an inverse (water-in-oil) emulsion that creates a 3-dimensional network characterized by small ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6841055 | Method of preparing electrophoretic support, electrophoretic matrix, and method of electrophoresis A method of preparing an electrophoretic support comprising washing of at least a portion of the surface of a silicon-containing support member supporting an electrophoretic matrix with a weak alkali solution and supporting of said matrix by said support member; an ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6733647 | Electrophoresis gels A polyacrylamide gel utilizing a buffer system comprising Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane at the concentration range 0.15 to 0.25 M titrated with hydrochloric acid to a pH between 6.5 and 7.5. The gel is substantially stable to polyacrylamide hydrolysis during stora... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6585873 | Polymer gels and methods for their preparation A crosslinked hydrophilic gel in which the crosslinker used in a compound of Formula I or Formula II ##STR1## or combination thereof. These crosslinked hydrophilic gels provide enhanced separation in electrophoresis. The use of the crosslinkers of Formula... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6365415 | Method for characterization and quality control of porous media The present invention provides a method to characterize, optimize, and control the quality and production of hydrogel media. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for determining the size, size distribution, and spatial distribution of the... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6197173 | Methods and reagents for gel electrophoresis Polymerization of gels for electrophoresis with improved photoinitiators results in gels which are suitable for electrophoresis. The new initiator systems are much faster than current systems for making such gels. Moreover, the polymerization reaction can... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6187250 | Continuous gel casting method and apparatus An apparatus and method which allows one skilled in the art to make either gradient or non-gradient slab gels continuously so that the produced gels are uniformly formed, polymerized and cut to a specific size as needed, in a mass-produced, assembly line ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6171463 | Electrophoresis method and apparatus for separating bio-organic molecules The present invention relates to the electrophoretic separation of bio-organic molecules using a slab gel electrophoresis apparatus having a pair of spaced, confronting plates defining a multi-lane separation zone adapted to hold a separation medium and a... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6162342 | Rapid assembly casting system for slab gels Flat plates serving as molds and enclosures for slab gels are held together by a clamping frame in which the side edges of the plates slide into facing channels and are clamped by lever-operated cams that compress the channel walls against the plate surfa... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6123821 | Automated system for two-dimensional electrophoresis The present invention provides an integrated, fully automated, high-throughput system for two-dimensional electrophoresis comprised of gel-making machines, gel processing machines, gel compositions and geometries, gel handling systems, sample preparation ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6007689 | Apparatus for preparing gels for use in electrophoretic separations and similar applications An apparatus for the rapid preparation of electrophoresis gels comprises: (a) a housing; (b) a support fixture removably disposed within the housing and adapted to receive a gel holder having an internal gel compartment, the support fixture being optional... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5993628 | Electrophoresis method and apparatus for separating bio-organic molecules The present invention relates to the electrophoretic separation of bio-organic molecules using a slab gel electrophoresis apparatus having a pair of spaced, confronting plates defining a multi-lane separation zone adapted to hold a separation medium and a... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5993627 | Automated system for two-dimensional electrophoresis The present invention provides an integrated, fully automated, high-throughput system for two-dimensional electrophoresis comprised of gel-making machines, gel processing machines, gel compositions and geometries, gel handling systems, sample preparation ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5916427 | Methods and reagents for gel electrophoresis Polymerization of gels for electrophoresis with improved photoinitiators results in gels which are suitable for electrophoresis. The new initiator systems are much faster than current systems for making such gels. Moreover, the polymerization reaction can... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5873991 | Method for electrophoretic separation Method for electrophoretic separation of nucleic acid fragments comprising the following steps: a) providing a polyacrylamide based gel prepared by photoinitiated polymerization of a mixture containing monoolefinic- and di- and/or polyolefinic monomers an... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5821186 | Method for preparing hydrous titanium oxide spherules and other gel forms thereof The present invention are methods for preparing hydrous titanium oxide spherules, hydrous titanium oxide gels such as gel slabs, films, capillary and electrophoresis gels, titanium monohydrogen phosphate spherules, hydrous titanium oxide spherules having ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5766436 | Method, a process, a device and a kit for lane-by-lane format horizontal electrophoresis A method of electrophoresis and providing electrophoresis support medium in lane-by-lane formation, each lane having a sample loading well and for electrophoresis gel lanes are transferred to electrophoresis tank lane by lane and used for electrophoresis.... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5767196 | Method of carrying out electrophoresis with a submerged gel A method of gel electrophoresis carried out in a submerged gel mode in which the gel is a bed of water insoluble, transparent, cross linked gel, which has been formed by: dissolving a polysaccharide, including at least one linear polysaccharide such as ag... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5759375 | Miniaturized disposable gels for DNA analysis In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, there are provided methods, gels, and transferring devices for loading gels. The methods and devices of the present invention involve the use of ultra-thin, miniature, disposable, slab gels for th... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5753095 | Plastic mold for electrophoresis gel An improved plastic mold for the polymerization of electrophoresis gels. The improved electrophoresis gel mold comprises non-conductive plastic film. The film is supported by a rigid plastic frame. The frame maintains the integrity of the electrophoresis ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5716508 | Utilization of additives and defined storage systems to increase the stability and performance of electrophoresis media The present invention relates to an electrophoresis media comprising a gel and a compound capable of restricting the diffusion of water within the gel. Diffusion restricting compounds useful in the present invention include but are not limited to polyols,... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5709788 | Device and method for vertical slab gel casting and electrophoresis in a single enclosure A device and method for vertical slab gel casting and electrophoresis in a single enclosure is provided. Air is utilized as a sealing medium to seal the bottom of a gel space for gel casting by constructing an air-tight connection between a sealable lower... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5700365 | Crosslinked polyacrylamide gels with high monomer: crosslinker ratios Improved polyacrylamide-type gels utilizing diacrylyl tertiary amide crosslinkers are disclosed having relatively high monomer:crosslinker ratios in comparison to conventional polyacrylamide gels. The resulting gels have pore structures chemically and phy... | 12/23/1997 |
