Rapid pharmaceutical component screening devices and methods
CA 2449655 A1 · Owner: Hewlett-Packard Company · Inventors: Childers, Winthrop D.
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An automated method and device (10) for analyzing biological samples such as substances containing cellular material in which at least one jetting device (18) is activated to dispense a volume of a potential pharmaceutically active agent into contact with a defined volume of the biological sample. Data pertaining to changes detected in the defined volume is captured and analyzed. The potential pharmaceutically active agent or multiple agents are contained in a cartridge (28) removably insertable in the device (10) employed. Typically, the volume of and arrangement of potentially pharmaceutically active agent can be varied over multiple sample volumes to provide arrayed or …
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- Filed June 5, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 5, 2022.
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