Cambridge, MA, November 12, 2008 - Intelligent Medical Devices, Inc. (IMDx) announced the issuance of Japanese Patent No. JP 4,179,876 directed to personalized medicine for methods for determination of the cause of one or more medical symptoms in an affected individual.
The patented methods utilize multiple probes specific for targets, such as infectious agents and genetic markers, associated with different known causes of one or more medical symptoms. Biological samples can then be screened in parallel across the probes and interactions are detected and analyzed to determine the cause of medical symptoms.
About IMDx
Based in Cambridge, MA, IMDx (www.IntelligentMDx.com) is an innovative company that designs, develops and manufactures molecular diagnostic products. IMDx has developed molecular solutions that are clinically impactful and competitively differentiated for a range of disease areas for current and next generation systems, including targets in infectious diseases, oncology and genetics. IMDx's expertise spans evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, microbiology, chemistry and molecular biology. These capabilities are harnessed by IMDx's proprietary bioinformatics and product development processes allowing for the rapid design and development of tests to meet clinical needs.
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