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METHOD FOR SEPARATING LONG-CHAIN NUCLEIC ACIDS Long-chain nucleic acids are separated from other substances from solutions containing nucleic acids and other materials, and more particularly nucleic acid/protein mixtures from biotechnical preparations from bacteria, viruses, animal and vegetable tissues and cells as well as body liquids, more particularly cell ingredients and/or degradation products thereof as well as components of body liquids which components are not long-chain nucleic acids, by that the long-chain nucleic acids in the nucleic acid-containing solutions, or after disintegration under mild conditions of the tissue cells and/or cells from body liquids are fixed on a porous matrix, whereas the substances to be separated therefrom are washed out from the matrix, and the fixed nucleic acids, if desired, are subsequently removed from the matrix. A device for carrying out the method preferably consists of a cartridge (1) containing the porous matrix (11) and having at least one inlet opening (3) and at least one outlet opening (4). |