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Title: Chip-based sequencing nucleic acids

Abstract

A system for fast DNA sequencing by amplification of genetic material within microreactors, denaturing, demulsifying, and then sequencing the material, while retaining it in a PCR/sequencing zone by a magnetic field. One embodiment includes sequencing nucleic acids on a microchip that includes a microchannel flow channel in the microchip. The nucleic acids are isolated and hybridized to magnetic nanoparticles or to magnetic polystyrene-coated beads. Microreactor droplets are formed in the microchannel flow channel. The microreactor droplets containing the nucleic acids and the magnetic nanoparticles are retained in a magnetic trap in the microchannel flow channel and sequenced.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1151768
Patent Number(s):
8,815,576
Application Number:
11/965,585
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Beer, Neil Reginald. Chip-based sequencing nucleic acids. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Beer, Neil Reginald. Chip-based sequencing nucleic acids. United States.
Beer, Neil Reginald. 2014. "Chip-based sequencing nucleic acids". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1151768.
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