July 22, 1998--Tm Bioscience(VSE:TMC. - news)
Mr. Don MacAdam reports:
Tm Bioscience Corporation is pleased to announce that United States Patent number 5,770,365, ''Nucleic Acid Capture Moieties,'' has issued on June 23, 1998. The inventors Michael Lane, Albert Benight and Brian Faldasz, are the principal scientists of the company.
The patent protects the use of bound ''hairpin'' capture probes in a wide range of DNA-based assays including microplate, magnetic bead and biochip formats. Hairpin capture probes are more sensitive compared to the current industry-standard simplex capture probes. The increased sensitivity provides for earlier detection of infectious disease, more reliable medical diagnosis and improved blood screening. When applied to biochips, the increased sensitivity of hairpin capture probes permits the fabrication of denser biochip arrays therefore reducing the cost per test.
Tm Bioscience Corporation is a genomics company based in Toronto, Ontario, with a subsidiary Tm Technologies Inc. in Woburn, Massachusetts. The company has uncovered a second coding in DNA based on its sequence-dependent reactivity. The Second Genetic Code allows DNA sequence information to be analyzed in new ways and enables improvements to products that incorporate or react with DNA.
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Don MacAdam, 416/593-4323
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