US Patent Issued to GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on March 24 for "Method and system for detecting mtDNA mutations" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,166, issued on March 24, was assigned to GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Guangzhou, China).

"Method and system for detecting mtDNA mutations" was invented by Xingguo Liu (Guangzhou, China), Liang Yang (Guangzhou, China), Xiaobing Lin (Guangzhou, China) and Haite Tang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a system for detecting mtDNA mutations. Specifically, provided is a method for detecting mtDNA mutations in trace cells, comprising: (a) extracting mtDNA in trace cells, the number of trace cells being 1 to 4; (b) performing PCR amplification on differ...