US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 1 for "Use of morphogenic factors for the improvement of gene editing" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,851, issued on July 1, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Iowa).

"Use of morphogenic factors for the improvement of gene editing" was invented by Stephen Lawrence Gasior (Johnston, Iowa), William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), Keith S Lowe (Johnston, Iowa), David J Peterson (Ames, Iowa), Sergei Svitashev (Johnston, Iowa) and Joshua K Young (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for the improvement of double-strand-break-inducing agent activity in eukaryotic cells, through the usage of one or more morphogenic factors or developmental genes. The morphogenic factor may ...