US Patent Issued to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Bacterial continuous evolution system, orthogonal error-prone DNA polymerase, and continuous evolution method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,232, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (Wuxi, China).

"Bacterial continuous evolution system, orthogonal error-prone DNA polymerase, and continuous evolution method" was invented by Yanfeng Liu (Wuxi, China), Jian Chen (Wuxi, China), Guocheng Du (Wuxi, China), Long Liu (Wuxi, China), Xueqin Lv (Wuxi, China), Rongzhen Tian (Wuxi, China) and Runzhi Zhao (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a bacterial continuous evolution system, an orthogonal error-prone DNA polymerase, and a continuous evolution method. In the present invention, by combining an orthogonal DNA replication system...