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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1994
Hisanori Nasu, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshitaka Nakamura, Chiba, JP;
Hitoshi Fujimiya, Mobara, JP;
Kenji Yamamoto, Kashiwa, JP;
Hitachi Engineering Software Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for reading a gel electrophoresis pattern can read the gel electrophoresis pattern of a sample, such as a nucleic acid and a protein, with high sensitivity and without requiring the use of an expensive device structure such as a laser light source of unique type. The gel electrophoresis apparatus is structured by a sample supplying section for supplying a sample labeled with a fluorescent substance from an inlet side of an electrophoresis gel unit; an electrophoresis unit for subjecting the sample to electrophoresis by applying an electrophoresis voltage to the electrophoresis gel unit; a carrying section for withdrawing the electrophoresed sample continually from an outlet side of the electrophoresis gel unit into a carrying fluid and carrying the fluid a predetermined distance; a mixing unit for mixing the carrying fluid with a luminous liquid; and a light receiving section for receiving fluorescence emitted from the sample in the luminous liquid at a position to which the carrying fluid has been carried the predetermined distance.