US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 7 for "Methods and compositions for studying cell evolution" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,803, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for studying cell evolution" was invented by Pratiti Bandopadhayay (Boston), Rameen Beroukhim (Boston), Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), David Feldman (Cambridge, Mass.), Cory Johannessen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Funien Tsai (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed to methods and compositions for tagging cells of interest, tracking evolution of the tagged cells...