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Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8110083 | Arbitrary and simultaneous control of multiple objects in micro-fluidic systems In a microfluidic device, respective motion of a plurality of objects along corresponding trajectories is achieved by determining a force field, such as an underlying fluid flow which, when applied to the plurality of object, moves each object along its correspondin... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7951279 | Electrophoresis apparatus and device therefor There is provided an electrophoresis device including an insulator that includes: a first-separating-medium storing section for storing therein a first separating medium; a first opening and a second opening that are in communication with the first-separating-medium... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7588673 | Electrophoresis cassette with sealing and closure features Slab gel electrophoresis cassettes constructed from two flat rectangular plates, with features that allow the plates to be joined parallel to and facing each other with a gap between them that is sealed at the sides and open at the top and bottom for access to upper... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7491306 | Apparatus for use in gel electrophoresis An apparatus for use in conducting gel electrophoresis. The apparatus includes a gel matrix and a tray for containing the gel. The tray consists of a bottom surface, opposed side walls and opposed end walls. The side walls are connected to the bottom surface and the... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7422670 | System for pH-neutral stable electrophoresis gel A gel and buffer system for gel electrophoresis wherein separation occurs at neutral pH. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7410560 | Device for storage and delivery of standards for gel electrophoresis Gel plugs that can be stored in a sealed condition and delivered individually to an electrophoresis gel as standards for electrophoretic separations are retained in a cartridge that is cleanly breakable into individual sections, each section retaining a gel plug of ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7384528 | Coating of pre-cast electrophoresis slab gels 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 the application of a coating of a nonionic amphiphilic polymer to the cassette walls. The coating... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384527 | Electrophoresis apparatus and a plate therefor The invention provides an electrophoresis apparatus comprising an electrophoretic chamber containing at least on two-plate housing for a sieving matrix, each said at least one two-plate housing consisting of a cover plate and a plate for housing said sieving matrix,... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384525 | Electrophoretic analysis system having in-situ calibration An electrophoretic system having a plurality of separation lanes is provided with an automatic calibration feature in which each lane is separately calibrated. For each lane, the calibration coefficients map a spectrum of received channel intensities onto values ref... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384781 | Sensors for biomolecular detection and cell classification A sensor device is provided for detecting an analyte in a sample in which an analyte is bound to a detection reagent to form a bound complex. The device comprises (a) a sample (5) comprising an ionic analyte and a detection reagent in a conductive fluid, wher... | 06/10/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7338583 | Electrophoresis apparatus, and method of analysis Analysis is performed efficiently in an electrophoresis apparatus while avoiding deterioration of samples. A plurality of sample plates are stored in frozen storage. When a particular sample plate is being analyzed, other sample plates are stored in a standby unit. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7312916 | Electrophoretic media containing specularly reflective particles An electrophoretic medium (100) comprises at least one type of particle (108) suspended in a suspending fluid (106) and capable of moving therethrough on application of an electric field to the medium, the particles (108) including at lea... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309409 | Multi-channel bio-separation cartridge A bio-separation system using an efficient, compact, portable, interchangeable, reusable, recyclable, multi-channel cartridge, has integrated pre-aligned optics and an integrated reagent reservoir. The cartridge supports, for example, multiple capillaries for CE sep... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303715 | Horizontal gel casting device and method A horizontal casting tray with one or more slidable blocks for sealing at least one open end of the tray is provided to accommodate the casting of solidifiable separation media in variable lengths for use in electrophoresis. Methods for using the casting device to p... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7264703 | Gel trap for electrophoresis An apparatus for electrophoresis having a first gel matrix, adapted for performing an electrophoretic process therein, in communication with a second gel matrix, both being accommodated within a suitable housing. The housing has a first opening adapted to permit ion... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7208072 | Multi-segment cartridge for bio-separation with multiplexed fluorescence detection A bio-separation instrument using a multi-segment cartridge. The cartridge includes a plurality of efficient, compact, portable, interchangeable, reusable, recyclable, modular, multi-channel segments. Each segment supports multiple capillaries for CE separation. Eac... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201834 | Methods and compositions for modifying the surface of a polymeric substrate Methods and compositions for modifying the surface of a polymeric substrate are provided. In the subject methods, at least a portion of the surface of the polymeric substrate is contacted with a biofouling resistant surfactant composition. At least a portion of the ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7183367 | Vinyl sulphone modified polymer There is provided a polymer having a side chain of general formula (I) in which R may be any suitable alkyl, oxyalkyl, aryl or oxyaryl linking group R is preferably C1-6 alkyl (especially —CH2—), a benzene group or a group —CH2... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7153405 | Cassette, system, and 2-D gel electrophoresis method for separating molecules A gel electrophoresis cassette (33) is disclosed which includes two plates (34, 35) and at least one seal (36) which separates these plates. The seal (36) is annular; it may be positioned essentially in the region of the outer edge of the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153404 | Gel spot picker The present invention relates to a gel sheet (1) for use in a spot picker device wherein said gel sheet is provide with reference marks (5′–5′″) which can be used to determine if the gel sheet (1) has been deformed between the stages of ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153403 | Protein market pellets and method of making and using the same A protein marker pellet for use in a gel electrophoresis system includes one or more protein markers including a protein of known molecular weight with ionic components to provide electrical conductance, and a non-protein, gel-forming material having a porosity suff... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7122104 | Electrophoresis apparatus for simultaneous loading of multiple samples The present invention includes apparatus for simultaneous loading of multiple samples for molecular separation, including a separation area with walls wherein at least one of the walls has apertures having loading sites, a gel located within the separation area, and... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7077940 | Strip holder, chamber, cassette, and 2-D gel electrophoresis method and system for performing this method for separating molecules A strip holder (1) is disclosed for accommodating a gel strip (3) for separating molecules using gel electrophoresis. The strip holder (1) disclosed is distinguished by including a baseplate (4), at least one stop (5), which is off... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074312 | Device for stacking multiple pre-cast horizontal gels A device for vertically stacking multiple pre-cast gels for simultaneous electrophoresis is described. The device comprises a plate of non-electrically conductive material that separates adjacent gels within a vertical stack and facilitates contact between the ends ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7033477 | Electrophoresis gel assembly A thin-film electrophoresis assembly includes a support frame having a top portion and a substantially flat face, a first thin-film member carried by the support frame, a second thin-film member carried by the support frame, and a resolving gel sandwiched between th... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6964735 | Method for moving charged particles Devices and methods are disclosed for moving charged molecules through a medium by the application of a plurality of electrical fields of sufficient strength and applied for sufficient amounts of time so as to move the charged molecules through the medium. The devic... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6942774 | Electrophoresis apparatus and a method of using the same An apparatus for rehydrating and for performing electrophoresis on a gel strip includes a tray defining a plurality of parallel troughs configured to receive gel strips. Each trough defines a centrally located rehydration area and an electrode area disposed either s... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942771 | Microfluidic systems in the electrochemical detection of target analytes The invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for conducting analyses, particularly microfluidic devices for the detection of target analytes. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6939453 | Electrophoresis process using ionic liquids Highly hydrophobic compounds and hydrophobic proteins are solubilized in a non-aqueous solvent containing an electrolyte for electrophoretic separation. The non-aqueous solvent is an ionic liquid or a mixture of an organic solvent containing an ionic liquid in an am... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6936150 | Methods and apparatus for electrophoresis of prior-cast, hydratable separation media Methods and apparatus are presented that facilitate electrophoresis of prior-cast, hydratable separation media, usefully immobilized pH gradient (IPG) strips. The method exploits the swelling of prior-cast, hydratable separation media upon rehydration to help lodge ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932895 | Automated electrophoresis gel manipulation apparatus An automated, computer controlled assembly is provided for continuously processing a large number of electrophoresis gels. The assembly includes a loading assembly for loading a gel onto a carrier, a gel staining assembly and a scanning and cutting assembly. The sta... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6929732 | Electrophoresis separator An electrophoresis separator of which a receiving tank used for placing therein carriers has slots on the two sides thereof, one side of each carrier has a notch matching with a corresponding slot; so that when the carrier is inserted in the receiving tank, a blocki... | 08/16/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6921471 | Gel process plate A gel process plate is formed of a base member with a plurality of concave portions, and a lid member with a plurality of convex portions. Each concave portion has a bottom surface provided with holes for allowing a liquid to pass therethrough. Each convex portion h... | 07/26/2005 |