{"slug": "reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent", "title": "Reliance's Strand Life Sciences Secures Indian Patent", "summary": "Reliance Industries' subsidiary Strand Life Sciences secured an Indian patent on July 7, 2026, for an AI-enabled blood test that detects early-stage cancer using cell-free DNA analysis. The platform combines genome sequencing with machine learning to identify cancer and its tissue of origin from a single blood draw, aiming to make precision screening more accessible in India, which faces over 1.5 million new cancer cases annually.", "body_md": "**Reliance Industries**' subsidiary **Strand Life Sciences** was granted an Indian patent on **July 7, 2026** for an AI-enabled blood test that detects early-stage cancer using cell-free DNA analysis, the company said in a press release carried by ANI. The patented platform combines high-quality genome sequencing, quality control, and machine-learning-based methylation and fragmentomic feature extraction to detect cancer and predict its tissue of origin from a single blood draw. CEO Ramesh Hariharan said the technology aims to make precision cancer screening \"more accurate, scalable, and accessible\" as India faces over 1.5 million new cancer cases a year. For practitioners, the patent is a concrete example of ML models built on sequencing and epigenetic features being deployed for real clinical screening, not just research.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/reliances-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent-80125176", "published_at": "2026-07-07 12:08:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 13:05:23.261059+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Reliance Industries", "Strand Life Sciences", "Ramesh Hariharan", "ANI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reliance-s-strand-life-sciences-secures-indian-patent.jsonld"}}