US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Ultraspecific riboregulators having robust single-nucleotide specificity and in vitro and in vivo uses thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,574, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Ultraspecific riboregulators having robust single-nucleotide specificity and in vitro and in vivo uses thereof" was invented by Alexander Green (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Fan Hong (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are highly sensitive compositions and methods for detection of at least one specific nucleic acid molecule in a sample. The presence of a specific nucleic acid provides a positive indicator of a pathogenic agent, contaminant, non-canonical bases, and/or wild-type or mutated ge...