US Patent Issued to 1GLOBE HEALTH INSTITUTE on July 1 for "Compositions of asymmetric interfering RNA and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,840, issued on July 1, was assigned to 1GLOBE HEALTH INSTITUTE LLC (Norwood, Mass.).

"Compositions of asymmetric interfering RNA and uses thereof" was invented by Chiang Jia Li (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiangao Sun (Brookline, Mass.), Harry Rogoff (Norwood, Mass.) and Youzhi Li (Westwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides asymmetrical duplex RNA molecules that are capable of effecting sequence-specific gene silencing. The RNA molecule comprises a first strand a second strand. The first strand is longer than the second strand. The RNA molecule comprises a double-stranded region formed by the first strand the...