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Patent Profile: BioNanomatrix Receives Nanofluidic Chip Patent

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Nate Chongsiriwatana -- BioNanomatrix, Inc. recently announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,670,770 for nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis. Previously, single-molecule DNA analysis has been limited by the difficulty of linearizing (untangling) and manipulating intact native DNA. To address these limitations, a Princeton University research team, including Dr. Han Cao, the founder and chief scientific officer of BioNanomatrix, used a nanofluidic chip to untangle and guide individual DNA molecules into an array of nanochannels. According to Dr. Cao, the founder and chief scientific officer of BioNanomatrix, "this invention allows for true linear analysis of very long...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).