US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Dec. 2 for "Methods and compositions for diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative diseases" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,537, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.) and THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Methods and compositions for diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative diseases" was invented by Niketa A. Patel (Land O' Lakes, Fla.) and Jianfeng Cai (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are assays, methods, and devices for diagnosing/prognosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and/or a neurodegenerative disease in a subject. The assays, methods, and/or devices described herein can be configured to detect GAS5 long-coding RNAs and/or ...