Patent ID: 11921083
Assignee: YOURGENE HEALTH CANADA INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 18:
19. A method of capturing one or more macromolecules from an electrophoretic gel, the method comprising:
a. providing the device of claim 1, positioned in a laneway or an extraction well of the electrophoretic gel, the one or more macromolecules positioned upstream of the device, the electrophoretic gel operationally positioned in an electrophoretic apparatus;
b. applying an electric field to the electrophoretic gel to move the one or more macromolecules along the laneway of the electrophoretic gel toward the device;
c. constricting lines of the electric field passing through the device by directing the lines through the through-hole of the aperture membrane of the device, to reduce the cross-sectional area through which the one or more macromolecules move; and
d. continuing to apply the electric field to the gel to capture the one or more macromolecules on the recovery membrane of the device, thereby decreasing the surface area of the recovery membrane onto which the one or more macromolecules are captured.