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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
William Coleman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Tanner, Hayward, CA (US);
Christopher M. Silva, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Bylina, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven J. Robles, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael R. Dilworth, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Douglas C. Youvan, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary M. Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Kairos Scientific, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an instrument and methods for a multispectral optical technique that can simultaneously classify individual biological cells within mixed populations. This invention, known as Multispectral Taxonomic Identification (MTID), shows that microscopy can be combined with a software analysis program to measure and categorize the fluorescence and other spectroscopically identifiable signals from complex populations of cells in situ, without cultivation. The invention thus enables high-throughput screening of cells for taxonomic classification.