US Patent Issued to Celltheon on March 3 for "Matrix attachment regions and uses in promoting gene expression" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,663, issued on March 3, was assigned to Celltheon Corp. (Union City, Calif.).

"Matrix attachment regions and uses in promoting gene expression" was invented by Nikhil Goel (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to new identified matrix attachment regions (MAR) and chimeric sequences. Also disclosed are nucleotide constructs containing a MAR at a suitable location relative to a protein-coding sequence for optimal expression of the protein."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2019, under Application No. 17/311,306.

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