US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 10 for "Methods and devices for non-enzymatic nucleic acid synthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,011, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for non-enzymatic nucleic acid synthesis" was invented by David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Gabriel Mednick (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for non-enzymatically synthesizing nucleic acids. The methods include submerging a first portion of the outer surface of a cylinder in a non-enzymatic nucleic acid synthesis reaction mixture. The reaction mixture has a pH of 4 or less and includes an organizing matrix reagent and monophosphate nucleotides. The methods further in...