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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an expression timing and expressing order of a circadian rhythm-regulating gene group in a normal time, a method for detecting the irregularity of the circadian rhythm by using the expression timing and expressing order and further, a method of screening by using the expression timing and expressing order. SOLUTION: This circadian rhythm-regulating gene group (Bmal1 gene, Npas2 gene, Rev-erbα gene, Dbp gene, Per3 gene, Per2 gene and Per1 gene) having a prescribed expression timing and expressing order in the normal time is provided. Also, a DNA chip arranged at least with the circadian rhythm-regulating gene group is provided. Further, a method for forecasting the irregularity of the expression timing of the circadian rhythm-regulating gene group, a method for detecting the irregularity of the circadian rhythm, a method for selecting a circadian rhythm-adjusting agent, a method for screening the circadian rhythm-adjusting agent and a method for screening a substance accompanied with the irregularity of the circadian rhythm as an adverse effect, by using the DNA chip are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the enhancement of the efficiency (speedup) of hybridization and the enhancement of the detection precision of hybridization under a condition using electrodynamic technique. SOLUTION: The bioassay method is constituted so that an electric field is applied to a reaction field 2 wherein detecting nucleic acid D, target nucleic acid T having a complementary base sequence with respect to detecting nucleic acid D and mismatch nucleic acid M having an unproper base in the complementary base sequence are mixed to predominantly advance the normal hybridization H 1 between detecting nucleic acid D and target nucleic acid T. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate understanding of interaction mechanism and metabolic system of biological material. SOLUTION: A visualization method for biological material is disclosed in which a computer system is used to display information on the biological material such as genes and protein on a computer display picture and visualize the information. wherein on the basis of classification information for each biological material stored in a storage means beforehand which constitutes the computer system, the biological material belonging to the same classification and the interaction among the biological materials are displayed on the same layer on the computer display screen. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To supply an aqueous solution to a minute reaction region that is a field for detecting the interaction between substances, and to prevent the evaporation of the aqueous solution. SOLUTION: The detection part of the interaction between substances is constituted so as to provide a reaction region 11 that is a field for detecting the interaction between substances and the detection part 1 for the interaction between the substances equipped with at least water absorbable gel G housed in the reaction region 11 and electrodes 12 and 13 arranged in opposed relation to the reaction region 11 to arrange the detection part 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To verify the action of a high frequency AC electric field on a single strand nucleic acid existing in an aqueous solution never containing an ingredient such as a nucleic acid material, an enzyme, or a primer for synthesizing DNA, and to use the action for improving the efficiency of a hybridization using the single strand nucleic acid as a complementary chain for the other nucleic acid. SOLUTION: This method for elongating the single strand nucleic acid, comprises making a high frequency AC electric field to act on a single strand nucleic acid existing in pure water or an aqueous solution (R) of pH 15 to 11, or a single strand nucleic acid immobilized on the surface or surfaces (f) of one or both of counter electrodes (E, E) adjacently disposed to the aqueous solution (R). And an apparatus for elongating the single strand nucleic acid, and the like are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the hybridization efficiency by adopting a device so as to arrange and fix a nucleotide chain for sensing an elongated state. SOLUTION: A hybridization sensing part 1a, etc., are composed so as to fix a reaction region R to be a site for hybridization between a nucleotide chain X for sensing and a target nucleotide chain Y having a base sequence complementary to the nucleotide chain X for sensing to an end of a scanning electrode C by dielectrophoretic actions while elongating the nucleotide chain X for sensing with an electric field. Thereby, a sensor chip equipped with the sensing part 1a, etc. and a method for hybridization using the hybridization sensing part and sensor chip are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical device that can obtain more or the order of 10 photons with shortened wavelengths by the collision of an electron beam and a laser beam and easily obtain an electromagnetic wave (ultraviolet rays) with a desired wavelength. SOLUTION: An optical device is equipped with an electron beam source consisting of a linear accelerator 10 and a laser light source 20. The optical device gives the energy possessed by electrons in an electron beam to photons in a laser beam by colliding the electrons in the electron beam emitted from the electron beam source and moving at a relativistic velocity with the photons in the laser beam emitted from the laser light source 20 in order to shorten a wavelength of scattered light. When the cross sectional area of the colliding electron beam or laser beam, whichever is larger, is set at A (unit: cm ), A should satisfy 1×10 .
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PURPOSE:To obtain a stable digital communication and to evade the degrading in the reliability and service life of a laser diode by using a laser diode whose optical output-current characteristic has a super linear characteristic area for a light emitting element. CONSTITUTION:As the light emitting element, a gain guide type semiconductor laser diode is constituted by using the laser diode whose optical output-current L-I characteristic curve shown by the full line curve 1 of the figure has the super linear characteristic area. This means that a current limited area is provided for that a current collectively flows within the oscillation area of an active layer. In this case, as the degree of light excitation increases, a dip in gain occurs in a gain distribution curve 3A. As a result, a virtually positive refraction factor distribution is generated in the middle of a refraction distribution curve 3B, accordingly, the light shifts to a wave-guided state from a non- wave-guided state, and thus the super linear characteristic area in which the optical output is increased in proportion to the aggregation of input current. Since the modulation is executed by using this area, the degrading of differential efficiency can be improved, therefore, the temperature rise is suppressed, as a result, the life and the reliability of the titled equipment can be improved.
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PURPOSE:To obtain a semiconductor device which is long-lived and has uniform characteristics by forming a non-current injection region by ion-implanting one of He, Be, Li and B in the semiconductor. CONSTITUTION:The formation of a non-current region for a semiconductor, such as a GaAs compound semiconductor, is formed by ion-implanting at least one kind out of the following specified light elements other than without using protons: helium He, beryllium Be, lithium Li and boron B: When this forming technigue applies to a gain guide type semiconductor laser of a stripe structure, an N-type AlxGa1-xAs first clad layer 2 and a P-type or N-type AlyGa1-yAs active layer, for example, and moreover, a P-type AlxGa10xAs second clad layer 4 and a P low-resistivity cap layer 5 are epitaxially grown in order on an N-type GaAs substrate 1 and the active layer and thereafter, a metal masking layer or a mask 20 of wire or so on to be extended in one direction is arranged on the cap layer 5 and boron B is implanted with a specific accelerating energy in such a depth that it intrudes from a top of the cap layer 5 into part of the thickness of the second clad layer 4.
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PURPOSE: To contrive to improve the astigmatism, threshold current, etc. by increasing or reducing the stripe width S 1 and then reducing the width S 2 , in a planar stripe structure wherein said width is S 1 at a distance from an optical end surface and S 2 at the optical end surface, and varies gently therebetween. CONSTITUTION: Each semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on a GaAs substrate 1. For the pattern of the electrode window 7a of an insulation layer 7, the widths S 1 and S 2 are joined to each other with a tapered part 13. When the distance to the imaginary light source of a light parallel with a junction surface from the optical end surface 12 is D, the curvature radius of the cophasal surface of an emitted light is R, and the half power width of the near field image of light at said surface 12 is W, D becomes maximum at some value of R with W as the parameter; therefore the larger the parameter W, the larger the distance D. Besides, the larger the width S 1 almost independently, the larger the radius R, and the larger the width S 2 , the larger the parameter W. Accordingly, S 1 is set large or small with the maximum value as a boundary, and S 2 small, R large, and W small, in order to reduce D. Thereby, the threshold current, astigmatism, etc. improve. COPYRIGHT: (C)1984,JPO&Japio