US Patent Issued to IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION on Dec. 9 for "Probe/primer library for diagnosis of cancer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,433, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Iwate, Japan).

"Probe/primer library for diagnosis of cancer" was invented by Satoshi Nishizuka (Shiwa-gun, Japan) and Takeshi Iwaya (Shiwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a versatile means utilizing a probe for dPCR, which enables quick detection of a mutation relevant to a cancer. A library including a plurality of probes and/or primers or primer pairs for detecting a mutation relevant to a cancer in the DNA-binding domain of the TP53 gene is provided. By using the present invention, relapse of alimentary canal c...