Licensing Program
Public Health Research Institute Properties, Inc. offers non-exclusive worldwide licenses for the molecular beacons technology in a variety of fields and for a variety of uses.
For more information on the molecular beacons licensing program, please contact Dr. Fred Russell Kramer (fred.kramer@rutgers.edu; 1-973-854-3370.)
Products and Assays that Utilize Molecular Beacons Technology
- Custom molecular beacon probes
- Assay kits
- Performance of assays for a fee
- Performance of assays for internal quality control
- Assay instruments
Fields of Use for Molecular Beacons Technology
- Human in vitro diagnostics
a. Testing for infectious agents
b. Genetic testing
c. Oncology
- Research
- GMO testing
- Food testing
- Veterinary diagnostics
- Hybrid seed production
- Agricultural infectious agents
- Forensics
- Paternity testing
- High-density probe arrays
- Industrial microbiology
- Blood products quality control
- Environmental pathogens
The fields of use are not limited to this list. New applications and fields for molecular beacons arise frequently.
Recent Publications from our group
Banada PP, Green R, Streck D, Kurathi R, Reiss R, Banik S, Montalvan I, Jones R, Marras SAE, Chakravorty S, and Alland D (2023) An expanded RT-PCR melting temperature coding assay to rapidly identify all known SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-variants of concern. Scientific Reports 13. 21927. PMID: 38081834: PubMed Link
Ebraham L, Xu C, Wang A, Hernandez C, Siclari N, Rajah D, Walter L, Marras SAE, Tyagi S, Fine DH, Daep CA, and Chang TL (2023) Oral Epithelial cells expressing low or undetectable levels of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in vitro. Pathogens 12. PMID: 37375533: PubMed Link