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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2017
Applicants:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Fei Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);

Shahar Alon, Cambridge, MA (US);

Andrew Payne, Cambridge, MA (US);

Asmamaw Wassie, Boston, MA (US);

Daniel Goodwin, Somerville, MA (US);

Edward Stuart Boyden, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Evan Daugharthy, Cambridge, MA (US);

Jonathan Scheiman, New York, NY (US);

Assignees:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6874 (2018.01); C12Q 1/6841 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6874 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6841 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention provides in situ nucleic acid sequencing to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ sequencing of nucleic acids in a process referred to herein as 'expansion sequencing' (ExSEQ).


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