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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Shirley I. Miekka, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Wilson Burgess, Clifton, VA (US);
William N. Drohan, Springfield, VA (US);
Yuri Griko, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Martin J. Macphee, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
David M. Mann, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Shirley I. Miekka, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Wilson Burgess, Clifton, VA (US);
William N. Drohan, Springfield, VA (US);
Yuri Griko, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Martin J. MacPhee, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
David M. Mann, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Clearant, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods are disclosed for sterilizing biological materials to reduce the level therein of one or more biological contaminants or pathogens, such as prions, responsible for the disease states known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in mammals. These methods involve sterilizing biological materials with irradiation.