US Patent Issued to JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on Dec. 23 for "Antibacterial phage, therapeutic composition, bactericidal agent, food, bacteria identification kit, therapeutic composition manufacturing method, bacteria elimination method, bacteria identification method, and animal therapeutic method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,413, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Antibacterial phage, therapeutic composition, bactericidal agent, food, bacteria identification kit, therapeutic composition manufacturing method, bacteria elimination method, bacteria identification method, and animal therapeutic method" was invented by Longzhu Cui (Shimotsuke, Japan) and Kotaro Kiga (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are antibacterial phages that selectively kill bacteria having a drug resistance gene or the like. Antibacterial phage for this includes CRISPR-Cas13a with a target sequence that recognizes a specific gene a...