MINIATURE REACTION CHAMBER AND DEVICES INCORPORATING SAME

摘要

The present invention generally relates to miniaturized devices (2) for carrying out and controlling chemical reactions and analyses. In particular, the present invention provides devices (2) whiih have miniature temperature controlled reaction chambers (16) for carrying out a variety of synthetic and diagnostic applications, such as PCR amplification, nucleic acid hybridization, chemical labeling, nucleic acid fragmentation and the like.