Universal Influenza Virus Probes for Enrichment of Influenza Viral Sequences | Office of Technology Transfer, NIH

Universal Influenza Virus Probes for Enrichment of Influenza Viral Sequences | Office of Technology Transfer, NIH

 Technology Development Opportunity:

Universal Influenza Virus Probes for Enrichment of Influenza Viral Sequences

The universal influenza enrichment probes can be used to enrich any influenza virus sequences from a wide range of complex samples for research, diagnostics, and surveillance of influenza viruses. Credit: NIAID

To increase the sensitivity of sequence-based, universal detection of all influenza viruses, this set of influenza virus enrichment probes contains a unique set of 46,953 biotin-labeled, RNA proves, each 12- base-pairs long. These can be used to enrich for influenza sequences without prior knowledge of type or subtype. The probe set can also capture and enrich influenza viral sequences selectively and notably, which could be a valuable tool to investigate influenza sequences in clinical samples with degraded nucleotides or containing low amounts of influenza. Read more about this exciting collaboration/licensing opportunity at: www.ott.nih.gov/technology/e-032-2018

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