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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Inventor:
Timothy E. McKnight, Greenback, TN (US);
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/701 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a rapid, highly fieldable, nearly reagentless diagnostic to identify active RNA viral replication in a live, infected cells, and more particularly in leukocytes and tissue samples (including biopsies and nasal swabs) using an array of a plurality of vertically-aligned nanostructures that impale the cells and introduce a DNA reporter construct that is expressed and amplified in the presence of active viral replication.