US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 15 for "Methods for screening host cells expressing target proteins" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,953, issued on April 15, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Methods for screening host cells expressing target proteins" was invented by Yen-Ju Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Mei-Wei Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Min-Yuan Chou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for screening host cells expressing a target protein is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing an expression vector, the expression vector including a promoter, a gene encoding a target protein and an FTH1 gene; transfecting the host cells with the expression vector; culturing the host cells in a medium; a...