US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Boston College on Feb. 24 for "Method for aptamer selection and identification" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,744, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Morocco).

"Method for aptamer selection and identification" was invented by Tim van Opijnen (Somerville, Mass.), Juan C. Ortiz-Marquez (Brighton, Mass.), Stephen Hummel (Ft. Myers, Fla.) and Jose Bento (Medfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel approach, recomSELEX, that highly integrate mutually supportive recombination and computational methods for aptamer selection and identification. The recomSELEX approach comprises a recombinatorial SELEX platform for aptamer screening that exponentially increases ...