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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anthony H Reading, Wantage, GB;
Brynley J Miles, Cirencester, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435178 ; 435177 ; 43524022 ;
Abstract
Biological cells are immobilized by forming a mixture of the cells and a first and second gel component, gelling the mixture with a gelling reagent and removing at least a portion of the first component to leave a gel containing the second component and the cells. Preferably, the first and second gel components are alignate and agarose, respectively, and the gelling reagent is calcium chloride.