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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Edward Stuart Boyden, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Fei Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shahar Alon, Cambridge, MA (US);
George Church, Brookline, MA (US);
Paul Warren Tillberg, Cambridge, MA (US);
Adam Henry Marblestone, Arlington, MA (US);
Evan R. Daugharthy, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
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 as well as new methods for fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) in a new process referred to herein as 'expansion sequencing' (ExSEQ).