US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, President and Fellows of Harvard College on July 8 for "Supernegatively charged proteins and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,837, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Supernegatively charged proteins and uses thereof" was invented by Yongjoo Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), David R. Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kevin Tianmeng Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions, systems, and methods for delivering an effector protein into a cell. The present disclosure, in some aspects, provide novel proteins delivering an effector protein into a cell. The novel proteins are supernegatively charged proteins derived from highly an...