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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2006
Lance Liotta, Bethesda, MD (US);
Emanuel Petricoin, Gainesville, VA (US);
Lance Liotta, Bethesda, MD (US);
Emanuel Petricoin, Gainesville, VA (US);
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for characterizing the physiological state of a living system, including cells, tissues, organs, and whole organisms. The methods involve capturing biomarkers from the living system, and correlating their presence or absence to a physiological state. The biomarkers can be captured from the system, and then detected using any suitable analytical system to determine their presence or absence. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method of detecting a polypeptide biomarker in a blood serum or plasma sample obtained from a single subject with an affinity ligand which is capable of binding to a plurality of different polypeptide biomarkers derived from the same parental molecule.