Recent Biomarker and Companion Diagnostics Patents

Posted by: sciclips on: October 19, 2011

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Highlights of recent US patents (issued) and US/WO(PCT) patent applications:

1. AIMP1 protein as a novel biomarker for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis
2. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for the diagnosis of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and obesity
3. Biomarkers for diagnosing auto-immune chronic urticaria
4. MicroRNA (miRNA) biomarkers for determining the risk level of a neuroblastoma patient
5. Biomarkers for predicting post-lung transplantation complications
6. Biomarkers for the prognosis of the progression of septic syndrome in a patient
7. Biomarkers for determining a patient’s susceptibility of contracting a nosocomial infection
8. Novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of diabetes
9. Biomarker associated with increased risk in developing a cardiovascular disease, or an autoimmune disease or inflammatory diseases
10. Autoantigen biomarkers for the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes
11. ATF2 and SH3GL2 as autoantigen biomarkers of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
12. Biomarkers for predicting the clinical response to antidepressants
13. HLA complexes for predicting drug induced adverse reactions
14. Biomarkers for predicting the response of a patient with ankylosing spondylitis to anti-TNFalpha therapy
15. Gene expression markers for the diagnosis and prognosis of preeclampsia
16. Point-of-care (POC) devices for stress response profiling in saliva
17. CXCL3 as a biomarker of colon cancer
18. Serum biomarkers of differentiating chronic obstruction pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer patients
19. Sirtuin assay

Details: http://www.sciclips.com/sciclips/biomarker-news.do

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