US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on July 22 for "miRNA switches for RNA-triggered control of RNA interference" (Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,900, issued on July 22, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston) and UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"miRNA switches for RNA-triggered control of RNA interference" was invented by Alexander Arthur Green (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Yu Zhou (Gainesville, Fla.), Peike Sheng (Gainesville, Fla.) and Mingyi Xie (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods, compositions and systems comprising synthetic nucleic acid molecules that enable inducible or conditional pri-miRNA processing, preferably in mammalian cells in vivo. Provided herein are synthetic nucleic acid...