US Patent Issued to Taipei Medical University, Academia Sinica on Aug. 12 for "Detection of a tumor in a urinary organ" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,095, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taipei Medical University (Taipei, Taiwan) and Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Detection of a tumor in a urinary organ" was invented by Yueh-Lin Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsi-Hsien Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Ji-Yen Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Pei-Kuen Wei (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to detection of a tumor in a urinary organ using microRNA(s). MiR-200c-5p, miR-214-3p, miR-21-5p, miR-21-3p, miR-210-3p and/or miR-200b-3p can be used as biomarkers of tumors in a urinary organ to detect a tumor in or predict a prognosis of a tumo...