Clinically intelligent diagnostic devices and methods
AssigneeIntelligent Medical Devices, Inc.
InventorsAlice A. Jacobs, Vineet Gupta, Boris Nikolic
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Abstract
The invention relates to the clinically intelligent design of diagnostic devices (such as microarrays) and methods of making and using such devices in differential diagnoses of specific clinical symptoms or sets of symptoms. In one aspect, the devices include various probes used to perform parallel screening of a number of analytes. The probes are clustered on the devices based on known clinical presentations of symptoms associated with specific diseases and disorders.
Claims2
A method of determining a cause of one or more medical symptoms exhibited by a subject, the method comprising:
- (a) obtaining a biological sample from the subject;
- (b) obtaining an array of different probes or different sets of probes, wherein each probe or set of probes selectively interacts with a target associated with a different known cause of the one or more medical symptoms;
- (c) applying the biological sample to the probes in the array under conditions that enable all of the probes to selectively interact with any targets in the biological sample;
- (d) detecting interactions;
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- (e) analyzing interactions to determine a cause of the one or more medical symptoms.
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