US Patent Issued to SCIPIO BIOSCIENCE on Feb. 10 for "Methods for trapping and barcoding discrete biological units in hydrogel" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,908, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SCIPIO BIOSCIENCE (Montrouge, France).

"Methods for trapping and barcoding discrete biological units in hydrogel" was invented by Stuart Edelstein (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for trapping and barcoding discrete biological units in a hydrogel. Also disclosed are methods for analyzing gene expression, genotype, haplotype or epigenome in discrete biological units, as well as kits for implementing the methods of the present disclosure."

The patent was filed on May 4, 2018, under Application No. 15/971,417.

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