US Patent Issued to DONGGUK UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Nov. 18 for "Method of overexpressing target gene using electromagnetic wave-reactive promoter" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,561, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DONGGUK UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of overexpressing target gene using electromagnetic wave-reactive promoter" was invented by Jongpil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Junsang Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of overexpressing a target gene and/or a method of reprogramming cells, the method including steps of (a) introducing a vector into cells, into which vector a promoter and a target gene are inserted; and (b) applying an electromagnetic wave to the cells obtained in the step (a), and a method of t...