US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 18 for "Constructs for continuous monitoring of live cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,749, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Constructs for continuous monitoring of live cells" was invented by Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), Jacob Borrajo (Cambridge, Mass.), Mohamad Najia (Cambridge, Mass.) and Atray Dixit (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for methods to obtain multiple information-rich samples at different time points from the same cell while minimally disrupting the cell. The subject matter disclosed herein is generally related to nucleic acid constructs for conti...