US Patent Issued to VIB VZW, Universiteit Gent, Life Sciences Research Partners VZW on Sept. 9 for "Liver-specific nucleic acid regulatory elements and methods and use thereof" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,236, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VIB VZW (Ghent, Belgium), Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium) and Life Sciences Research Partners VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Liver-specific nucleic acid regulatory elements and methods and use thereof" was invented by Marinee Chuah (Lovenjoel, Belgium), Thierry Vandendriessche (Lovenjoel, Belgium) and Pieter De Bleser (Buggenhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are nucleic acid regulatory elements that are able to enhance liver-specific expression of genes, methods employing these regulatory elements and uses of these elements. Expression cassettes and vectors containing these nu...