US Patent Issued to SEASUNBIO MATERIALS on Nov. 11 for "PNA oligomer, use thereof for detecting DNA methylation, and method for detecting DNA methylation using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,080, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SEASUNBIO MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"PNA oligomer, use thereof for detecting DNA methylation, and method for detecting DNA methylation using same" was invented by Bat Ochir Chinbayar (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hee Kyung Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modified PNA oligomer for detecting gene methylation. By using a PNA probe modified by introducing a methyl group-specific substituent to the gamma position, N-terminus or C-terminus of the PNA, the present invention may be used for a method for detecting using a difference in ph...