US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 14 for "Scarless genome editing through two-step homology directed repair" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,016, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Scarless genome editing through two-step homology directed repair" was invented by Kazuya Ikeda (Koto, Japan) and Matthew H. Porteus (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scarless genome editing is disclosed. In particular, the method provides scarless genome modification by using homology directed repair (HDR) steps to genetically modify cells and remove unwanted sequences. This method can be used for genome editing, including introducing mutations, deletions, or insertions at any positi...