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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMedifacts Systems Grants Exclusive License for Genetic Test Patent to Mayo Clinic.
BIOTECH Patent News, February, 2008
Medifacts Systems, Inc. (Chicago. IL) announced that it has granted an exclusive license for a genetic test patent to Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). The patented test detects Alpha Thalassemia mutations and their use as predictors of blood-related disorders. The patent is the invention of Lemuel J. Bowie Ph.D., an African American from Vicksburg, Mississippi who was educated at Xavier University in New Orleans, Howard University, and Johns Hopkins. Through this licensing agreement, Mayo Clinic's reference laboratory, Mayo Medical Laboratories will make the test available to patients worldwide.
Thalassemia is an inherited blood disease particularly prevalent among Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islanders, Asian, and African peoples. The genetic defect that...
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