US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 2 for "Biosensors for measuring metastatic potential and chemoresistance of single cancer cells" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,269, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Biosensors for measuring metastatic potential and chemoresistance of single cancer cells" was invented by Pradipta Ghosh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) biosensor that measures the metastatic potential and/or chemoresistance of single living cancer cells, and/or cells associated with fibrogenesis, diabetes, aging, and/or infertility."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2019, under Application No. 17/051,293.

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