US Patent Issued to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE on July 29 for "Multifunctional nucleic acid reporter constructs" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,709, issued on July 29, was assigned to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC. (Boston).

"Multifunctional nucleic acid reporter constructs" was invented by Christian Bowman-Colin (Boston), David M. Livingston (Brookline, Mass.), Laura C. Wong (South Grafton, Mass.) and Shweta Kitchloo (North Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nucleic acids comprising multifunctional double-stranded break reporter constructs for stable or transient transfection into a cell, as well as detecting a type of double-stranded break repair mechanism in a cell. Methods for detecting types of double-stranded break repair mechanism in a cell, as well as...