US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 12 for "Use of long non-coding RNAs in medulloblastoma" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,398, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Use of long non-coding RNAs in medulloblastoma" was invented by Joseph Ranjan Perera (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Keisuke Katsushima (Saint Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for detecting long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) in medulloblastoma. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising detecting lnc RNA HLX2-7 in a biological sample obtained from a patient having or suspected of having me...