US Patent Issued to New York University on July 21 for "Methods and compositions for treating and diagnosing pancreatic cancers" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,743, issued on July 21, was assigned to New York University (New York).

"Methods and compositions for treating and diagnosing pancreatic cancers" was invented by George Miller (Englewood, N.J.), Berk Aykut (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Deepak Saxena (New York) and Smruti Pushalkar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to methods based on modulating pancreatic and/or gastrointestinal microbiota and related antifungal compositions. Specifically, the application relates to the use of microbiome for prevention, treatment and diagnosis of pancreatic cancers or tumors, such as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma."

The patent w...