US Patent Issued to EmendoBio on July 15 for "Differential knockout of an allele of a heterozygous fibrinogen alpha chain (FGA) gene" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,196, issued on July 15, was assigned to EmendoBio Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Differential knockout of an allele of a heterozygous fibrinogen alpha chain (FGA) gene" was invented by Lior Izhar (Tel-aviv, Israel), David Baram (Nir Zvi, Israel), Joseph Georgeson (Rehovot, Israel), Michal Golan-Mashiach (Ness-ziona, Israel), Asael Herman (Ness-ziona, Israel) and Rafi Emmanuel (Ramlaa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "RNA molecules comprising a guide sequence portion having 17-20 nucleotides in the sequence of 17-20 contiguous nucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-1990 and compositions, methods, and uses thereof."

The pat...