Vehicle for delivery of particles to a sample
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsMatthew P. Collis, Stephen H. Szczepanik
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a vehicle for delivery of particles to a sample of cells. The vehicle includes a barrier to retain the particles, which barrier is a dissolvable material Once released into the sample, the particles are useful in methods to lyse or disrupt cells or in methods to separate cellular components from one another if the cells in the sample are already lysed or disrupted.
Claims9
A vehicle for delivery of particles to a sample containing cells wherein said vehicle is a solitary unit and comprises a dissolvable material which retains the particles until said particles are released into the sample, said particles being sufficiently non-dissolvable to remain undissolved in the sample for a time sufficient to disrupt the cells and render accessible nucleic acids therefrom when the sample is agitated or sonicated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.