US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 16 for "Methods of non-destructive nanostraw intracellular sampling for longitudinal cell monitoring" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,000, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods of non-destructive nanostraw intracellular sampling for longitudinal cell monitoring" was invented by Nicholas A. Melosh (Menlo Park, Calif.), Yuhong Cao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Karl Martin Hjort (Lund, Sweden) and Amanda Jonsson (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses to non-destructively and periodically sample a small quantity of intracellular proteins and mRNA from the same single cell or cells for an extended period of time. Specifically, describe herein are non-pertu...