C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 12 – N
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
12
N
C12N 15/87 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2062178
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The present invention uses aerosol beam technology to accelerate either wet or dry aerosol particles to speeds enabling the particles to penetrate living cells. Aerosol particles suspended in an inert gas are accelerated to a very high velocity during the jet expansion of the gas as it passes from a region of higher gas pressure to a region of lower has pressure through a small orifice. The accelerated particles are positioned to impact a preferred target, for example, a plant or animal cell or bacterial culture. When the droplets include DNA or other macromolecules, the macromolecules are introduced into the cells. The particles are constructed as droplets of a sufficiently small size so that the cells survive the penetration. Once introduced into the target cell the macromolecules can elicit biological effects. Because the method of introduction is a physical one, the biological barriers that restrict the application of other DNA transfer methods to a few plant species and a few cell types are not present. In addition, the method and apparatus of the present invention permit the treatment of a large number of cells in the course of any single treatment. Thus the inventive method and apparatus should be applicable to a wide range of plant species and cell types that have proved in the past to be quite impervious to standard methods of genetic engineering.
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