Method for isolating a part of a layer of a biological material
AssigneeMolecular Machines & Industries AG
InventorNorbert Leclerc
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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.
Claims8
A method for isolating a part of a layer of biological material, comprising the steps of:
- a) applying the layer of biological material to one side of a stabilization layer;
- b) positioning the stabilization layer with the layer of biological material suspended above a catching device, wherein a gap is left between the stabilization layer and the catching device;
- c) focusing a laser beam and describing a closed curve around the part of the layer of biological material to be isolated, and eroding the biological material as well as the stabilization layer on the curve thus separating the part to be isolated from a remnant of the layer of biological material;
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- d) catching the part to be isolated in the catching device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.