US Patent Issued to Salk Institute for Biological Studies on March 18 for "Compositions and methods for treating age-related diabetes and related disorders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,527, issued on March 18, was assigned to Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for treating age-related diabetes and related disorders" was invented by Sagar P. Bapat (La Jolla, Calif.), Ye Zheng (La Jolla, Calif.), Ronald Evans (La Jolla, Calif.), Michael Downes (La Jolla, Calif.), Annette R. Atkins (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ruth T. Yu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention features compositions and methods treating or preventing for age-related insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disorders. The method involves depleting fTreg cells with an anti-ST2 anti...