California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Phthalamide-Lanthanide Complex

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | October 30, 2008 | Copyright

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30 -- Kenneth N. Raymond and Jide Xu, both of Berkeley, Calif., Stephane Petoud of Pittsburgh, and Seth Cohen of Boston, have developed a method for detecting target sequence amplification.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides luminescent lanthanide metal chelates comprising a metal ion of the lanthanide series and a complexing agent comprising at least one phthalamidyl moiety. Also provided are probes incorporating the phthalamidyl ligands of the invention and methods utilizing the ligands of the ...

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