Abstract:
The action of high-frequency AC electric field on a single-stranded nucleic acid being present in an aqueous solution is verified, and the action is utilized for enhancement of the efficiency of hybridization for conversion of the single-stranded nucleic acid to a companion complementary strand. There are provided, for example, a method of nucleic acid extension and nucleic acid extending apparatus, wherein high-frequency AC electric field is applied to a single-stranded nucleic acid being present in liberated form in pure water or an aqueous solution of 5 to 11 pH (R), or to a single-stranded nucleic acid fixed onto the surface (f) of one or both (E) of counter electrodes (E,E) provided so as to face the aqueous solution (R), thereby extending the single-stranded nucleic acid.
Abstract:
The action of high-frequency AC electric field on a single-stranded nucleic acid being present in an aqueous solution is verified, and the action is utilized for enhancement of the efficiency of hybridization for conversion of the single-stranded nucleic acid to a companion complementary strand. There are provided, for example, a method of nucleic acid extension and nucleic acid extending apparatus, wherein high-frequency AC electric field is applied to a single-stranded nucleic acid being present in liberated form in pure water or an aqueous solution of 5 to 11 pH (R), or to a single-stranded nucleic acid fixed onto the surface (f) of one or both (E) of counter electrodes (E,E) provided so as to face the aqueous solution (R), thereby extending the single-stranded nucleic acid.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent effectively nonspecific adsorption of an intercalator onto the solid state surface. SOLUTION: The solid state surface f for detecting hybridization between a nucleic acid D for detection and a target nucleic acid T is covered with a material to be positively charged such as avidin or modified with a functional group to be positively charged resulting from a silane coupling agent, to thereby prevent nonspecific adsorption of the fluorescent intercalator I onto the solid state surface f. Thus this method is especially useful when detecting hybridization on the solid state surface f by using the fluorescent intercalator I. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique or the like, capable of effectively preventing water in a medium which is reserved or held in a reaction region, from evaporating. SOLUTION: An interaction detecting section 1 is provided with the reaction section 2 providing a field of interaction between matters; a capillary section 3 being in communication with the reaction section 2 and sending a hydrophile medium M to the reaction section 2 by utilizing capillary phenomenon. The interaction detecting section 1, a periphery region 31b of a sucking inlet 31a of the capillary section 3, an inner wall surface of the capillary 31 ranging from the sucking inlet 31a to the reaction section 2 and an inner wall surface of the reaction section 2 are made hydrophile. Furthermore, a substrate B for a bioassay is provided with the detection section 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel technique which reduces the background noise and achieves enhancement of the S/N ratio. SOLUTION: This detection part is used when the specific or complementary interaction between a probe molecule X and a target molecule Y is detected, on the basis of the fluorescence signal from a fluorescent substance and equipped with at least a reaction region R for providing a place of the interaction and the detection surface D facing the reaction region R. The detection surface D provides the interaction detecting part 1, formed of a metal or an alloy for exciting surface plasmon, a substrate using the detection part 1, a device that uses using the detection part 1 and a method that uses the detection part 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel container for a biofuel cell and a biofuel cell system, whereby fuel solution in a battery can be exchanged simply and conveniently without a need for a fuel supply mechanism such as a pump in a fuel cell body.SOLUTION: The fuel container including: a fuel solution storage part in which the fuel solution is stored; a waste liquid storage part in which waste liquid is stored; and a liquid feed mechanism by which the fuel solution is discharged and the solution after use is sucked is used to exchange fuel of the biofuel cell equipped with an electrode having oxygen existing on the surface. Concretely, the fuel solution stored in the fuel solution storage part of the fuel container is poured into the biofuel cell by the fuel feed mechanism, and the solution (waste liquid) after use in the biofuel cell is recovered in the waste liquid storage part.
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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