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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Pesident and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jose A. Halperin, Brookline, MA (US);
Huseyin Aktas, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); G01N 33/53 (2006.01); G01N 33/68 (2006.01); G01N 33/92 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/53 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6897 (2013.01); G01N 33/68 (2013.01);
Abstract
Bioassays for detecting the ability of one sample of a food substance, nutritional supplement, therapeutic agent and/or disease preventive agent relative to that of a second sample of such a substance, supplement and/or agent to inhibit, upregulate or otherwise modulate translation initiation, and thereby demonstrate a disease curative and/or preventive effect in a human and/or animal that consumes a such substance, supplement and/or agent or to whom a such substance, supplement and/or agent is administered are provided.