US Patent Issued to Natera on Aug. 26 for "Methods for isolating nucleic acids with size selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,389, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for isolating nucleic acids with size selection" was invented by James Stray (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jason Tong (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here is a method for isolating nucleic acids from a biological sample, comprising: (a) contacting a first composition comprising nucleic acids obtained from a biological sample with a first matrix under a low-stringency binding condition having less than 1% aliphatic alcohols that binds less than 5% of nucleic acids of shorter than about 118 bp and more than 30% of nucleic acids lon...