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US 2023/0407379 A1Published application
Electric field aided sample preparation
AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAdrienne McCampbell, Victor Lim, Sean Nasri, Brian Phillip Smart
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Abstract
The present methods and apparatus apply an electric field to a sample in order to prepare it for analysis. In some embodiments, an electric field is applied for drying, staining and coverslipping of tissue sections, providing improved tissue sections for analysis and storage.
Claims13
A method of preparing a sample for in situ hybridization, the method comprising:
- applying an electric field to a sample comprising a target polynucleotide;
- and
- contacting the sample with one or more detectable nucleic acid probes which specifically bind to the target polynucleotide while the electric field is being applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.