US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Feb. 3 for "Method for detecting nucleic acid" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,352, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method for detecting nucleic acid" was invented by Wei Li (Beijing), Qi Zhou (Beijing) and Fei Teng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting the presence and/or amount of a target nucleic acid molecule in a biological sample and a related kit. The method comprises: (a) contacting the biological sample with: i) Cas12b protein, ii) a gRNA targeting a target sequence of the target nucleic acid molecule, and iii) a single-stranded DNA reporter molecule generating a detectable signal after being cleaved to form a react...