US Patent Issued to Salk Institute for Biological Studies on June 2 for "Genetically encoded fluorescent-iron ferritin nanoparticle probes for detecting an intracellular target by fluorescent and electron microscopy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,929, issued on June 2, was assigned to Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Genetically encoded fluorescent-iron ferritin nanoparticle probes for detecting an intracellular target by fluorescent and electron microscopy" was invented by Clodagh O'Shea (San Diego) and Jingwen Yin (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are probes that are expressed in a cell to label an intracellular target (such as protein or DNA) for both light and electron microscopy. The probes comprise a targeting domain that specifically binds to the intracellular target, a detection tag that can be used to detect the intra...