US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Aug. 12 for "Compositions and therapeutic methods of microRNA gene delivery" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,067, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Compositions and therapeutic methods of microRNA gene delivery" was invented by Pierpaolo Peruzzi (Newton, Mass.) and Ennio Antonio Chiocca (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions and methods for treating a disease in a subject by administering delivery vectors that express artificial microRNAs, artificial microRNA clusters, and/or a combination of microRNA clusters and associated non-coding RNAs to the subject. Also described herein are methods for preparing artificial microRNAs and artificial microRNA clusters."...