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Patent Profile: EXACT Sciences Announces Issuance of Colorectal Cancer Screening Patent

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sherri Oslick -- EXACT Sciences Corp. announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,485,420, entitled "Methods and Compositions for Detecting Colon Cancers," which is directed toward the use of differentially methylated vimentin as a marker of colorectal cancer. The patent is assigned to Case Western Reserve University, and licensed exclusively by EXACT Sciences. The claims are directed to assays for assessing the likelihood of colorectal cancer in a patient through the detection of methylation within a vimentin nucleotide sequence. The invention is based in part on the inventor's discovery that methylation of vimentin DNA is associated with the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).