US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 13 for "Method to engineer transplantable human tissues" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,241, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method to engineer transplantable human tissues" was invented by Kun Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.), Yan Wu (La Jolla, Calif.), Amir Dailamy (La Jolla, Calif.), Prashant Mali (La Jolla, Calif.), Daniella McDonald (La Jolla, Calif.), Udit Parekh (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael Hu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods, polynucleotides, vectors, viral particles, cells, and systems or the engineering of human tissues. One aspect of the disclosure relates to using lineage-specific miRNA binding mole...