US Patent Issued to Tropic Biosciences UK on April 15 for "Modifying the specificity of plant non-coding RNA molecules for silencing gene expression" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,939, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tropic Biosciences UK Ltd. (Norwich, Great Britain).

"Modifying the specificity of plant non-coding RNA molecules for silencing gene expression" was invented by Eyal Maori (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yaron Galanty (Cambridge, Great Britain), Cristina Pignocchi (Norwich, Great Britain), Angela Chaparro Garcia (Norwich, Great Britain) and Ofir Meir (Norwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying a gene encoding or processed into a non-coding RNA molecule having no RNA silencing activity in a plant cell is disclosed. The method comprising introducing into the plant cel...