US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, The General Hospital on Oct. 14 for "Compositions and methods for detecting antibiotic responsive mRNA expression signatures and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,035, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for detecting antibiotic responsive mRNA expression signatures and uses thereof" was invented by Deborah Hung (Cambridge, Mass.), Roby Bhattacharyya (Boston), Jonathan Livny (Cambridge, Mass.) and Peijun Ma (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods, and kits for rapid phenotypic detection of antibiotic resistance/susceptibility."

The patent was filed on Aug. 26, 2019, under Application No. 17/271,496.

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