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US 8,507,257 B2Granted
Combined thermal devices for thermal cycling
AssigneeCanon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc.
InventorsGregory A. Dale, Shulin Zeng, Kenton C. Hasson
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Abstract
The invention relates to systems and methods including a combination of thermal generating device technologies to achieve more efficiency and accuracy in PCR temperature cycling of nucleic samples undergoing amplification.
Claims4
A nucleic acid sample heating system, comprising:
- a nucleic acid sample container operable to receive a nucleic acid sample;
- a switchable fan;
- a heat sink;
- a heat spreader;
- a first heating device;
- a second heating device, and
- a controller;
- wherein
- the first heating device is configured to heat the nucleic acid sample to at least about a first temperature,
- the second heating device is configured to heat the nucleic acid sample to a second and third temperature,
- the first temperature is associated with a denaturing phase of a PCR process,
- the first heating device is a non-contact heating device, and
- the second heating device is a contact heating device.
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