US Patent Issued to AGSINO GENSOURCES on May 13 for "Kit for breeding a TGEV infection resistant pig and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,355, issued on May 13, was assigned to AGSINO GENSOURCES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Kit for breeding a TGEV infection resistant pig and use thereof" was invented by Kui Li (Shenzhen, China), Yulian Mu (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit for breeding a pig breed with resistance to the porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus infection and application thereof. The systems includes a genetically edited protein, pAPN-sgRNA-1, pAPN-sgRNA-2, and a donor DNA. Effectively enzymatic cleavage can be made in two target sites of a pAPN gene by the gene editing protein. By replacing the fragm...