US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, President and Fellows of Harvard College on Jan. 13 for "RNA programmable epigenetic RNA modifiers and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,807, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"RNA programmable epigenetic RNA modifiers and uses thereof" was invented by David R. Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Gerard Wilson (Waltham, Mass.) and Peter J. Chen (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides programmable methylation "writers" and demethylation "erasers" for editing the methylation state of RNA targets, e.g., an RNA transcriptome. In particular, the disclosure provides RNA methylation editor polynucleotide contracts and vectors compris...