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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
May. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Sartorius Stedim Biotech Gmbh, Göttingen, DE;
Inventor:
Alexandra Scholz, Göttingen, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/689 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6844 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6851 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/158 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for quantitatively determining living and dead cells in a biological sample. The method according to the present invention is based on the determination of the amount of DNA in the sample with the aid of a DNA amplification reaction which does not impair the membrane integrity of living cells.