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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nam Woo Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Fred Wu, San Carlos, CA (US);
James T Kealey, San Anselmo, CA (US);
Ronald Pruzan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scott L Weinrich, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Geron Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 912 ; 435 913 ; 536 231 ; 536 243 ; 536 2433 ;
Abstract
Methods of detecting the RNA component of telomerase, diagnosing cancer, and determining its prognosis using polynucleotides that hybridize to the RNA component of mammalian telomerase in a sample.