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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2005
Applicants:
Tobin Hellyer, Westminster, MD (US);
Thomas Fort, Hanover, PA (US);
Ray A. Mcmillian, Timonium, MD (US);
Inventors:
Tobin Hellyer, Westminster, MD (US);
Thomas Fort, Hanover, PA (US);
Ray A. McMillian, Timonium, MD (US);
Assignee:
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C07H 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of ensuring the effectiveness of the extraction workup from a biological sample of nucleic acid. The inventive method is able to distinguish between possible defects in the extraction of nucleic acid from a sample and possible defects in a subsequent amplification step. The present invention also relates to a packaged array for extracting nucleic acid from a biological sample.