Nanotrope, Inc. announced that it has been issued United States patent #7,829,272 covering its ground-breaking diagnostic test for influenza and other viral infections. The patent describes Nanotrope's cellular mimic technology that creates an artificial "cell" engineered with specific membrane compositions and surface receptors which stimulate the virus into infecting the mimic as it would a normal host cell. Once the cell mimic is infected, viral genome sequences are detected by multi-color fluorescence providing both viral typing and sub-typing capabilities...
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