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US 6,713,309 B1Granted
Microarrays and their manufacture
AssigneeLarge Scale Proteomics Corporation
InventorsNorman G. Anderson, N. Leigh Anderson
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Abstract
The microarrays of the present invention are prepared by using a separate fiber for each compound being used in the microarray. The fibers are bundled and sectioned to form a thin microarray that is glued to a backing.
Claims17
A method for making an array comprising;
- cutting a fiber bundle transversely or at an angle to form a section,
- wherein said fiber bundle comprises a plurality of fibers attached to each other in a fixed position with respect to each other such that the fixed position with respect to each other is maintained after cutting,
- wherein the fibers have different agents of interest immobilized in or on different fibers, and
- wherein at least some of the plurality of fibers are fibers from solidified liquid containing a molecule of interest or wherein the different agents of interest are immobilized in or on different fibers after the fibers of the fiber bundle were in a fixed position with respect to each other.
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A method for making an array comprising;
- cutting a fiber bundle transversely or at an angle to form a section less than about 50 microns thick,
- wherein said fiber bundle comprises a plurality of fibers attached to each other in a fixed position with respect to each other such that the fixed position with respect to each other is maintained after cutting, and wherein the fibers have different agents of interest immobilized in or on different fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.