Electrical integrated nucleic acid isolation, purification and detection

US6511831B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Jurgen Bernhagen · Tübingen, DE
• Herwig Brunner · Stuttgart, DE
• Frank Vitzthum · Lahntal, DE
• Bentsian Elkine · Stuttgart, DE
• Georg Geiger · Pforzheim, DE
• G{umlaut over (u )}nter Tovar · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2000
• Grant date: Jan 28, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/143333
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for the isolation and purification of nucleic acids. According to the invention, after decomposition of a sample the nucleic acids present in said sample are isolated and purified.