NANOPROBE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20180230523A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15882380

    申请日:2018-01-29

    申请人: Duke University

    IPC分类号: C12Q1/6825 A61B5/00

    摘要: Gold nanorattle probes are provided that are highly tunable, physiologically stable, and ultra-bright Raman probes for in vitro and in vivo surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applications. The nanorattles contain an essentially uniform gap between core and shell that is tunable and can range from 2nm to 10nm in width. This provides numerous advantages including allowing for increased loading with a variety of dye molecules that exhibit SERS in various spectral regions, including the “tissue optical window” for in vivo studies. In addition, the nanorattle probes provide an internal label when used in diagnostic methods to detect nucleic acids, proteins and other biotargets. The nanorattles have an essentially spherical gold metal nanoparticle core, a porous material of silver metal of an essentially uniform width surrounding the nanoparticle core that is loaded with one or more SERS reporter molecules, and an outer gold metal shell encapsulating the porous material.

    Method for sequencing a polynucleotide template

    公开(公告)号:US10036063B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-31

    申请号:US13384302

    申请日:2010-06-30

    申请人: John Stephen West

    发明人: John Stephen West

    摘要: A method of determining the sequence of a target nucleic acid is provided. The method can include the steps of (a) performing a defined number of incremental extension cycles to produce a population of nucleic acid fragments having different portions of the target nucleic acid wherein the individual nucleic acid fragments in the population have a defined length that is correlated with the number of incremental extension cycles; (b) determining the sequence of the first end of individual nucleic acid fragments in the population, thereby providing first end sequences; (c) determining the sequence of the second end of individual nucleic acid fragments in the population, thereby providing second end sequences; and (d) determining the sequence of the target nucleic acid based on the first end sequences, the second end sequences and the defined length.