{"id":432,"date":"2010-08-06T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2010-08-06T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:58:09","slug":"patent-issued-for-nucleic-acid-extraction-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Patent Issued for Nucleic Acid Extraction Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akonni.com\/\">Akonni Biosystems<\/a> in Frederick, Maryland, received a U.S. patent for its &#8220;Apparatus, system, and method for purifying nucleic acids&#8221; technology, which applies to its nucleic acid binding matrix when inserted into a pipette tip, tubing or cartridge for nucleic acid purification.<\/p>\n<p>According to Akonni Biosystems, this technology can reduce to a few minutes the time needed to obtain polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-ready material from clinical specimens &#8212; a 10-fold or greater decrease. The company says the faster extraction of nucleic acids can apply to identification of influenza and cancer markers, genetics research, drug discovery, and forensics cases.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is available in Akonni Biosystems&#8217; TruTip Extraction Kits, which were first released to the market last November. The company estimates the size of the nucleic acid extraction market at about $700 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akonni Biosystems in Frederick, Maryland, received a U.S. patent for its &#8220;Apparatus, system, and method for purifying nucleic acids&#8221; technology, which applies to its nucleic acid binding matrix when inserted into a pipette tip, tubing or cartridge for nucleic acid purification. According to Akonni Biosystems, this technology can reduce to a few minutes the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,29],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","tag-biotech","tag-patent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}