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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:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Applicants:
Lang Zhuo, Singapore, SG;
Gideon Ho, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, SG;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is disclosed involving detecting the expression of a fluorescent protein of interest in an animal, wherein the animal is a transgenic animal having in its genome nucleic acid encoding said fluorescent protein operably linked to promoter nucleic acid from a protein that is normally expressed in the nervous system of the animal, the method comprising the step of non-invasively detecting fluorescence from said protein when expressed in said animal.