US Patent Issued to Duke University on April 21 for "CAS9 fusion proteins, RNA-guided gene editing, gene regulation compositions, and methods comprising the same" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,843, issued on April 21, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"CAS9 fusion proteins, RNA-guided gene editing, gene regulation compositions, and methods comprising the same" was invented by Charles A. Gersbach (Durham, N.C.), Isaac B. Hilton (Durham, N.C.), Pablo Perez-Pinera (Urbana, Ill.), Ami M. Kabadi (Greensboro, N.C.), Pratiksha I. Thakore (Durham, Ill.), David G. Ousterout (Raleigh, N.C.) and Joshua B. Black (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) 9-based system related compositions and methods of usi...