US Patent Issued to Illumina on Jan. 27 for "Methods and compositions for selective cleavage of nucleic acids with recombinant nucleases" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,752, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for selective cleavage of nucleic acids with recombinant nucleases" was invented by Clifford Lee Wang (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the methods and compositions provided herein relate to the selective cleavage of a target nucleic acid. Some such embodiments include the selective cleavage of a target nucleic acid that is associated with a DNA-binding protein or comprises a methylated CpG island, with a recombinant nuclease. In some embodiments, the DNA-binding protein comprises a chromatin protein. So...