Patents Assigned to Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH)
  • Patent number: 5877023
    Abstract: In a tubular pressure chamber a drop of a DNA solution with gold particles suspended therein is atomized at the opening of a cannula by a pressure impact. The fog droplets containing the gold particles and the DNA entrained by them, are pressured by the pressure impact through a restriction at the end of the pressure chamber and thereby accelerated and focused. They subsequently traverse in free flight an evacuated specimen chamber and impact in a narrowly limited target area with a predetermined pulse, cells fixed on a holder, thereby penetrating them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Novartis Finance Corp., Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH)
    Inventors: Christof Sautter, Heinz Waldner, Ingo Potrykus