US Patent Issued to Arrakis Therapeutics on Dec. 23 for "Nucleic acid-binding photoprobes and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,455, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Arrakis Therapeutics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Nucleic acid-binding photoprobes and uses thereof" was invented by Gnanasambandam Kumaravel (Lexington, Mass.), Jennifer C. Petter (Stow, Mass.), Jonathan Craig Blain (Melrose, Mass.), Donovan Noel Chin (Lexington, Mass.), Chao Fang (Lexington, Mass.), Herschel Mukherjee (Somerville, Mass.) and Neil Kubica (Swampscott, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to photoactivatable compounds and methods of use thereof for determining binding site and other structural information about RNA transcripts. The invention also provide...