Novel bioluminescent assays and bacterial strains useful therein
CA 2365791 A1 · Owner: Aubrecht, Jiri · Inventors: Ku, Warren Wen-Ta; Osowski, Jeffery John; Aubrecht, Jiri
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The present invention relates to novel assays for assessing the degree to which a cell is metabolically active. Also provided are mutagenicity assays , and, more, specifically methods for determining whether a given agent is genotoxic. Embodiments of the assays employ a microorganism or a mammalian cell, that , has, been genetically modified to produce light when the presence of test agent results in, a mutation, e.g. reversion or forward in the DNA of such microorganism or , cell.
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