Patents
The Company has been awarded four U.S. patents and corresponding worldwide patents covering broad-based detection technology and kits using microorganisms as nanosensors. Additional U.S. and foreign patent applications have been filed for further protection of the Company's novel intellectual property.
U.S. Patent No. 5,792,617 Aug. 11, 1998, Cell proliferation-based amplified detection of analytes.
U.S. Patent No. 5,472,846 Dec. 5, 1995, Test kit and method for amplification and detection of antigen cells.
U.S. Patent No. 6,228,574 May 8, 2001, Analytical system.
U.S. Patent No. 6,596,496 June 10, 2003, Analytical system based on spore germination.
U.S. Patent No. 6,596,496 March 29, 2005, Analytical system based upon spore germination.

Publications
 
Title:
 Using Living Spores for Real-time Biosensing BCR Technologies Detects and Identifies Single Bacterial Cells
Author:
 Boris Rotman
Source:
 Genetic Engineering News, vol. 21, No. 21, p. 65, December 2001.
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Title:
 Bacterial Detectives
Author:
 Bob Sinclair
Source:
 The Scientist, vol. 15, No. 9, p.24, 2001.
Title:
 Biosensor may provide rapid diagnosis of bacterial invasion
Author:
 Dale Ott
Source:
 Biophotonics International, May 2002, p. 33.
Title:
 Application of a Real-time Biosensor to Detect Bacteria in Platelet Concentrates
Author:
 Boris Rotman and Mindy A. Cote
Source:
 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 300, p.197-200, 2003.
Title:
 Esterase Activity as a Novel Parameter for Measuring Spore Germination in Bacillus anthracis.
Author:
 Linda Ferencko, Mindy A. Cote, and Boris Rotman
Source:
 Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm., vol. 319, p. 854-858, 2004.
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