US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine on Sept. 9 for "Building designer RNA nano-structures for synthetic biology applications" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,433, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Building designer RNA nano-structures for synthetic biology applications" was invented by Laising Yen (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure include compositions and methods for generating RNA nanostructures, particularly in a cell. In particular embodiments, RNA subunits comprising at least one three-way junction and at least one kissing loop are configured such that multiple RNA subunits can polymerize into a specific structure. In particular embodiments, the RNA subunits are configured such that sequence of at lea...