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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:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lucy Tung-Yi Lai, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Shiu-Yan Ho, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
PE Corporation (NY), Foster City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C07H 2/102 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C07H 2/102 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides aqueous compositions comprising sodium metasilicate and an ether and methods of using the compositions to extract a nucleic acid from a cell, virus or other source. The extracted nucleic acids can be used for a variety of purposes, including as a source of template DNA for a polymerase chain reaction.