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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:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Biomirna Holdings Ltd., Dublin, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biomirna Holdings Ltd., Dublin, IE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/00 (2006.01); A61P 3/00 (2006.01); A61P 35/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6886 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/118 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/158 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/178 (2013.01);
Abstract
A procedure and an apparatus are described for identifying individuals at risk of pulmonary tumour and/or for diagnosing a pulmonary tumour using the study of levels of expression of miRNA in the blood or another biological fluid. Also described are a method and a compound for reducing or eliminating a risk of pulmonary tumour by rebalancing the miRNAs that are underexpressed or overexpressed.