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Targeted system for removing tumor cells from cell populations

US6143535A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 27, 1998
Grant dateNov 7, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B21/365
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method is presented to remove contaminating tumor cells from a cell population. The method includes labeling individual tumor cells in the population and then killing them with a high energy laser beam. The laser is focused so that it specifically kills the identified tumor cell, but not the remaining cells in the population.

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