ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,920, issued on March 24, was assigned to Panka Cancer Research AG (Grunwald, Germany).
"Method of detecting cancer or cancer cells" was invented by Klaus Pantel (Hamburg, Germany) and Kai Bartkowiak (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of detecting breast cancer or breast cancer cells comprising: (a) obtaining a liquid sample from a subject which sample comprises cells, microvesicles and/or exosomes; and (b) determining the presence of soluble or cell surface associated Cyr61 in the sample; wherein the liquid sample is selected from blood, and/or bone marrow aspirate and wherein the...