MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611008410 A) filed by University Of Delhi, New Delhi, on Jan. 28, for 'culture-based enumeration of functionally-relevant circulating tumor cells in solid tumors.'

Inventor(s) include Prof. Alok C. Bharti.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a method (100) for detection and functional enrichment of metastasis-competent circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a peripheral blood sample of a subject suffering from an epithelial or solid tumor malignancy comprising the steps of: obtaining a peripheral blo...