US Patent Issued to C4U, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Method for detecting specific DNA in a sample" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,271, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to C4U Corp. (Suita, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan).

"Method for detecting specific DNA in a sample" was invented by Tomoji Mashimo (Suita, Japan), Kazuto Yoshimi (Suita, Japan) and Satomi Shibumura (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It has been found that by mixing a single-stranded probe DNA whose cleavage can be detected in a reaction system containing a CRISPR-Cas3 system and a sample from which to detect a target DNA, it is possible to detect the target DNA in the sample by using, as indication, a signal generated by the cleavage of the single-stranded probe DNA."

The pat...