ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,509, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Universal aptamer-based colloidal gold lateral flow test strip for detecting small-molecule substances" was invented by Chifang Peng (Wuxi, China), Xiuping Li (Wuxi, China), Guowen Li (Wuxi, China), Rui Chang (Wuxi, China) and Zhijuan Qian (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a universal aptamer-based colloidal gold lateral flow test strip for detecting small-molecule substances and belongs to the fields of analytical chemistry, medicine, environment, food safety detection, nano-biosensing and the like. An AuNPs@poly-DNA ...