US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on July 8 for "Microhomology mediated repair of microduplication gene mutations" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,836, issued on July 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Westborough, Mass.).

"Microhomology mediated repair of microduplication gene mutations" was invented by Scot A Wolfe (Winchester, Mass.), Charles P Emerson Jr. (Lyndon, Vt.), Sukanya Iyer (Marlborough, Mass.), Sneha Suresh (Dracut, Mass.), Christian Mueller (Concord, Mass.), Jennifer Chen (Kingston, Canada), Dongsheng Guo (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Oliver King (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to the filed of gene therapy. In particular, compositions and methods are disclosed that repair gene microduplication mutations by...