Patents Assigned to Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologish Onderzoek (VITO)
  • Patent number: 6472152
    Abstract: This invention concerns a diagnostic system made of: a transformed microorganism capable of an increased reporter activity upon exposure to an environmental insult, said microorganism having a stress inducible promoter sequence being operatively linked to a reported encoding nucleic acid sequence encoding a reporter molecule resulting in a signal that can be assayed, and of a transformed microorganism having a constitutive and non stress inducible promoter sequence being operatively linked to a reporter encoding nucleic acid sequence encoding a reporter molecule resulting in a signal that can be assayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologish Onderzoek (VITO)
    Inventors: Daniel Van Der Lelie, Luc Agnes Louis Jean Bosco Regniers, Safiyh Taghavi, Philippe Gilbert Ghislain Corbisier, Luc Philippine Edouard Verschaeve