US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 25 for "RNA-guided nucleic acid modifying enzymes and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,575, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"RNA-guided nucleic acid modifying enzymes and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, Calif.), Jillian F. Banfield (Berkeley, Calif.), David Burstein (Berkeley, Calif.) and Lucas Benjamin Harrington (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides CasY proteins, nucleic acids encoding the CasY proteins, and modified host cells comprising the CasY proteins and/or nucleic acids encoding same. CasY proteins are useful in a variety of applications, which are provided. The ...