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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
J. Michael Ramsey, Knoxville, TN (US);
Robert S. Foote, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12M 1/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12M 1/34 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for analyzing nucleic acids includes immobilizing nucleic probes at specific sites within a microchannel structure and moving target nucleic acids into proximity to the probes in order to allow hybridization and fluorescence detection of specific target sequences.