US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, President and Fellows of Harvard College on April 22 for "Nucleobase editors comprising GeoCas9 and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,338, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Nucleobase editors comprising GeoCas9 and uses thereof" was invented by David R. Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yongjoo Kim (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure provide strategies, systems, reagents, methods, and kits that are useful for the targeted editing of nucleic acids or the modification of nucleic acids or proteins, including editing a single site within the genome of a cell or subject, e.g., within the human genome. In some embodiments, f...