Method for isolating a part of a layer of a biological material
US8845623B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 6, 2007 |
| Grant date | Sep 30, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 1, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T156/12
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A film with a tissue section is placed with the tissue section downward on a microscope slide and the microscope slide positioned in the object plane of an inverse microscope; where an adhesive tape is arranged, with a bonding agent downward, above the film and therefore above the tissue section; wherein the next step, tissue to be isolated is excised by a focused laser beam, which also divides the film; whereupon removal of the adhesive tape from the microscope, the excised tissue pieces adhere to the adhesive tape, and the remnant of the film and of the tissue section remains adhering to the microscope slide.
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