US Patent Issued to LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH on Sept. 9 for "Bisulfite-free, whole genome methylation analysis" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,467, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH LTD (Zurich).

"Bisulfite-free, whole genome methylation analysis" was invented by Chunxiao Song (Oxford, Great Britain), Jingfei Cheng (Oxford, Great Britain), Paulina Siejka-Zielinska (Oxford, Great Britain) and Yibin Liu (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods for cost-effective bisulfite-free identification in DNA, including whole genomic DNA, of the locations of one or more of 5-methylcytosine, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, 5-carboxylcytosine and 5-formylcytosine. The methods described herein are based on the co...