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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1992
William P MacConnell, Cardiff, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A process for the purification of DNA and the like comprises a housing having walls forming a reservoir having a chamber for containing a buffer solution, means for circulating a buffer through the reservoir, a disposable cassette within said chamber having first means including a gel for defining a first path extending between an inlet end and an outlet end, a well for introducing a bacterial sample into the path at said inlet end thereof, and a second path intersecting the first path via an elution chamber, having a collection chamber including an elution window at said outlet end, and an electrical circuit for selectively applying an electrical potential along each of the paths for selectively moving a plasmid first along the first path from the bacterial well to the elution chamber, then along the second path to the collection window at the end thereof.