A nanoliter-scale nucleic acid processor with parallel architecture

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-439

  Hong, Jong Wook ^a   Studer, Vincent ^a,b   Hang, Giao ^a   Anderson, W French ^a,c   Quake, Stephen R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS; PURIFICATION; RNA;

MAMMALIAN CELLS; NUCLEIC ACID PROCESSORS; NUCLEIC ACID PURIFICATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BATCH PROCESS; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PURIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MICE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 1842424988     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt951     Document Type: Article

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