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Article: Canadian Inventors Develop Osteoarthritis Composition
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- October 11, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Choong-Chin Liew, Wayne Marshall and Hongwei Zhang, all from Toronto, have developed a method for detecting genes expression.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for nucleic acid sequences that are expressed in chondrocytes from any of the following developmental and disease stages: fetal, normal, mild osteoarthritic, moderate osteoarthritic, marked and osteoarthritic. The invention also relates to arrays and compositions comprising any combination of these nucleic acid sequences. The invention also provides for methods of using the arrays of the invention to diagnose osteoarthritis. The invention ...