US Patent Issued to HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE on Dec. 9 for "Cancer detection method using sense of smell of nematode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,040, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE INC. (Tokyo).

"Cancer detection method using sense of smell of nematode" was invented by Takaaki Hirotsu (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hideto Sonoda (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cancer detection method characterised in that a nematode is bred in the presence of bio-related material originating from a test subject, or a processed product of same, and cancer is detected using the chemotaxis due to the sense of smell of the nematode as an indicator."

The patent was filed on March 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/119,405.

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