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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander J Varshavsky, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435-4 ;
Abstract
A correlation between gene amplification and tumor promotion is disclosed herein. This correlation allows for a simple cellular assay that indicates whether a substance or process is a tumor promoter. This assay does not depend upon numerous biochemical processes that introduce uncontrolled and unascertained varibles into other cellular assays. This assay can also be used to determine whether a set of cells is abnormally genetically labile and therefore susceptible to cancer or genetic disease.