US Patent Issued to Sylvain Gnaho on Oct. 28 for "Method of isolating and detecting cancer stem cells" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,288, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sylvain Gnaho (Bonneval, France).

"Method of isolating and detecting cancer stem cells" was invented by Vincent Carre (Gueret, France) and Aurelie Lacroix (Panazol, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is the in vitro use of at least one lectin which recognises the fucose alpha(1-2) galactose unit for labelling cancer stem cells of organs involved in respiration, in order to obtain labelled cancer stem cells of organs involved in respiration, in a biological sample. In one particular embodiment, the at least one lectin is chosen from the lectins Ulex Europaeus agglutinin 1 (UEA-1) or...