US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 15 for "Compositions and methods for modifying a target nucleic acid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,179, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for modifying a target nucleic acid" was invented by Alexander Marson (Oakland, Calif.), Theodore Lee Roth (Oakland, Calif.), Daniel Goodman (Oakland, Calif.), David-Huy Nhu Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.) and Francis C. Szoka Jr. (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides compositions and methods for modifying a target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a composition can include a targetable nuclease, a DNA-binding protein, and a donor template comprising a homology directed repair (H...