Patent 7629124 was granted and assigned to Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to methods for amplifying nucleic acids in micro-channels. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for performing a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a continuous-flow microfluidic system and to methods for monitoring real-time PCR in such systems.