Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1996-10-04
1998-10-27
Gitomer, Ralph
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
435 23, 935 77, C12Q 168, C12Q 137, C12N 1500
Patent
active
058276637
ABSTRACT:
The detectability of luminescent molecules in solution is enhanced by reducing the background luminescence due to impurity species also present in the solution. A light source that illuminates the solution acts to photolyze the impurities so that the impurities do not luminesce in the fluorescence band of the molecule of interest. Molecules of interest may be carried through the photolysis region in the solution or may be introduced into the solution after the photolysis region.
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Affleck Rhett L.
Ambrose W. Patrick
Demas James N.
Goodwin Peter M.
Johnson Mitchell E.
Gitomer Ralph
The Regents of the University of California
Wilson Ray G.
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