METHODS FOR MEASURING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS BY MICROSCOPIC IMAGING - Patent 0871640

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EP 0 871 640 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	21.10.1998 Bulletin 1998/43

(21)	Application number: 96912538.0

(22)	Date of filing: 03.04.1996

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

C12N 15/ 09^{( . )}
C12Q 1/ 68^{( . )}
G01N 15/ 14^{( . )}

C12M 1/ 00^{( . )}
G01N 15/ 10^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US1996/004550

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1996/031522 (10.10.1996 Gazette 1996/45)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

03.04.1995 US 19950415839
03.04.1995 US 19950415710

(60)	Divisional application:
	07023766.4 / 1914238

(71)	Applicant: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
	New York, NY 10016 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	SCHWARTZ, David C., Apartment 8-B New York, NY 10012 (US)

(74)	Representative: Schüssler, Andrea, Dr.
	Kanzlei Huber & Schüssler Truderinger Strasse 246 81825 München 81825 München (DE)

(54)	METHODS FOR MEASURING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS BY MICROSCOPIC IMAGING