US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 25 for "Compositions and methods for labeling and modulation of cells in vitro and in vivo" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,430, issued on March 25, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for labeling and modulation of cells in vitro and in vivo" was invented by Hua Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and David J. Mooney (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for labeling cells using click chemistry reagents. The compositions and methods disclosed herein provide a specific and efficient means of localizing desired agents to a variety of cell types in vivo and in vitro."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2021, under Application No. 17/206,050.

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