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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2006
Applicants:
Alice A. Jacobs, Boston, MA (US);
Vineet Gupta, Brookline, MA (US);
Boris Nikolic, Charlestown, MA (US);
Inventors:
Alice A. Jacobs, Boston, MA (US);
Vineet Gupta, Brookline, MA (US);
Boris Nikolic, Charlestown, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intelligent Medical Devices, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); G01N 33/53 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to the clinically intelligent design of diagnostic devices (such as microarrays) and methods of making and using such devices in differential diagnoses of specific clinical symptoms or sets of symptoms. In one aspect, the devices include various probes used to perform parallel screening of a number of analytes. The probes are clustered on the devices based on known clinical presentations of symptoms associated with specific diseases and disorders.