US Patent Issued to VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL on Sept. 30 for "Muscle-specific nucleic acid regulatory elements and methods and use thereof" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,205, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Brussels).

"Muscle-specific nucleic acid regulatory elements and methods and use thereof" was invented by Thierry Vandendriessche (Bierbeek, Belgium) and Lay Khim Chuah (Bierbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nucleic acid regulatory elements that are able to enhance muscle-specific expression of genes, in particular expression in muscle cells and/or tissues such as in diaphragm, smooth muscle, heart and/or skeletal muscle, including at least two diaphragm-specific regulatory elements and a heart- and skeletal muscle-specific regulatory element. Expression...