Patent ID: 6571129
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
A sensor for obtaining information about the state of an organism for a medical therapy apparatus, comprising:at least two sensor elements for detecting molecular-genetic information, each said sensor element comprising at least one docking element, each said docking element having a known specificity for molecules of the organism and including a known molecule, and at least one measuring element, connected to a predominant number of the said at least two sensor elements, said at least one measuring element detecting hybridisation of a complementary molecule of the organism to the known molecule, each said measuring element being selected from a group consisting of: an element for measuring an electrical current produced by hybridisation, an element for detecting fluorescence present due to hybridisation, an element for detecting an electrical charge distribution which is altered by hybridisation, and an element for detecting a radioactive radiation present due to hybridisation, wherein the known molecules are selected from a group consisting of: synthetic oligonucleotides and PCR-generated cDNA fragments, and wherein at least one of said at least two sensor elements is present in identical form at least twice on the sensor.