US Patent Issued to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Phylogenetic-based differential cell separation and DNA extraction" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,834, issued on July 1, was assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Phylogenetic-based differential cell separation and DNA extraction" was invented by Michael Marciano (Manlius, N.Y.) and Molly Dunegan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for differentially isolating eukaryotic (plant and animal) DNA from bacterial DNA prior to sequencing using a combination of size exclusion-based separation and differential cell lysis. The method of the present invention exploits the differences of the cellular size and components of each type of organism to be separated. The composition and nature of the cell wall of plant...