US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 26 for "Simultaneous single-molecule epigenetic imaging of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,418, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

"Simultaneous single-molecule epigenetic imaging of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation" was invented by Chunxiao Song (Oxford, Great Britain), Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, Calif.), Axel Brunger (Stanford, Calif.) and Jiajie Diao (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for analyzing genomic DNA In some embodiments, the method may comprise labeling a genomic sample by adding a capture tag to the ends of the DNA molecules in the sample and labeling molecules that comprise hydroxymethylcytosine w...