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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2013
American Air Liquide, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Svcs., National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC (US);
Vasuhi Rasanayagam, Newark, DE (US);
Sagar D. Joshi, Newark, DE (US);
Meenakshi Sundaram, Newark, DE (US);
Stephen M. Hewitt, Rockville, MD (US);
Joon-Yong Chung, Rockville, MD (US);
American Air Liquide, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The invention may be broadly defined as the addition of Argon to FFPE procedures as an RNA stabilizing agent. Argon is an inert gas from the Noble gas group with low saturation concentrations in water. It is therefore highly surprising that Argon would have any effect on RNA stability in the presence of Formalin, or any other chemical. This property of Argon appears to be specific in that other inert gases fail to show any RNA stabilizing effect.