US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONE STATE UNIVERSITY, EMORY UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Selective detection of different dengue virus RNA serotypes using tandem toehold-mediated displacement reactions" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,627, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONE STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta).

"Selective detection of different dengue virus RNA serotypes using tandem toehold-mediated displacement reactions" was invented by Sidney Hecht (Phoenix), Jesse Waggoner (Atlanta), Mingxuan Gao (Chongqing, China) and Shengxi Chen (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods that may be used to differentially detect viral serotype specific nucleic acid. For example, these systems may comprise multiple DNA-nanostructures, capture oligonuc...