US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Dec. 23 for "Selective covalent capture of a DNA sequence" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,724, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Selective covalent capture of a DNA sequence" was invented by Kent Gates (Columbia, Mo.), Li-Qun Gu (Columbia, Mo.), Maryam Imani Nejad (Columbia, Mo.) and Xu Guo (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are probes in which an Ap site of a probe strand can selectively cross-link with a 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) of a target strand. Also provided for are methods of using such probes to generate and detect crosslinked molecules and methods of detecting disease associated genetic mutations."

The patent was filed on Aug....