US Patent Issued to MCMASTER UNIVERSITY on July 14 for "DNA aptamers for eosinophil peroxidase detection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,104, issued on July 14, was assigned to MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, Canada).

"DNA aptamers for eosinophil peroxidase detection" was invented by John D. Brennan (Dundas, Canada), Monsur Ali (Hamilton, Canada), Michael Wolfe (Hamilton, Canada), Dawn White (Bolton, Canada), Manali Mukherjee (Hamilton, Canada), Parameswaran Nair (Dundas, Canada) and Alfredo Capretta (Dundas, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to DNA aptamers that bind eosinophil peroxidase, including uses thereof, such as in eosinophil peroxidase detection assays. Also provided is a method for detecting the presence of eosinophil peroxidase ...