US Patent Issued to ADOLPHE MERKLE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG on April 22 for "Tuning of pore-forming peptides for increasing pore size, membrane affinity, stability, and antimicrobial activity" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,178, issued on April 22, was assigned to ADOLPHE MERKLE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Tuning of pore-forming peptides for increasing pore size, membrane affinity, stability, and antimicrobial activity" was invented by Aziz Fennouri (Fribourg, Switzerland), Jonathan List (Fribourg, Switzerland) and Michael Mayer (Fribourg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pore-forming peptides or proteins modified utilizing DNA nanotechnology, which provides definition and control of pore size, an increase in stability when inserted in a lipid membrane, and membrane affinity. Chemical modifications are easily mad...