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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2008
Applicants:

Brigitte F. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Christopher S. Szent-gyorgyi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Alan S. Waggoner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Peter B. Berget, Glenshaw, PA (US);

Marcel P. Bruchez, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Jonathan W. Jarvik, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Brigitte F. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Christopher S. Szent-Gyorgyi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Alan S. Waggoner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Peter B. Berget, Glenshaw, PA (US);

Marcel P. Bruchez, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Jonathan W. Jarvik, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Assignee:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/50 (2006.01); G01N 33/53 (2006.01); C07K 16/44 (2006.01); C09B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided are biosensors, compositions comprising biosensors, and methods of using biosensors in living cells and organisms. The biosensors are able to be selectively targeted to certain regions or structures within a cell. The biosensors may provide a signal when the biosensor is targeted and/or in response to a property of the cell or organism such as membrane potential, ion concentration or enzyme activity.


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