US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Jan. 27 for "Method for controlling microRNA expression" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,725, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Method for controlling microRNA expression" was invented by Tuan Anh Nguyen (Hong Kong), Thuy Linh Nguyen (Hong Kong), Trung Duc Nguyen (Hong Kong), Sheng Bao (Hong Kong) and Shaohua Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of producing single cut precursor microRNA (pre-miRNA) in a host cell from a primary microRNA (pri-miRNA). Also disclosed are method of increasing production levels of single cut precursor microRNA (pre-miRNA) and decreasing production levels of double cut precursor microRNA (pre-miRNA...