ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,340, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hubei University (Wuhan, China).

"Efficient synthesis and assembly method for large fragment DNA based on programmable nuclease Argonaute" was invented by Lixin Ma (Wuhan, China), Wanping Chen (Wuhan, China), Jiakai Cui (Wuhan, China), Miaomiao Chen (Wuhan, China), Fei Wang (Wuhan, China), Longyu Wang (Wuhan, China) and Xiaochen Xie (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An efficient synthesis and assembly method for the large fragment DNA based on the programmable nuclease Argonaute, specifically includes: constructing and treating antibiotic resistance gene reconstructed vectors with li...