US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on June 23 for "Short multi-repeat RNA targeting gene silencing" (Kansas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,670, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Short multi-repeat RNA targeting gene silencing" was invented by David E. Cook (Manhattan, Kan.), Veerendra Sharma (Manhattan, Kan.), Sandeep Marla (Manhattan, Kan.) and Geoffrey Morris (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Short multi-repeat RNA targeting constructs for manipulating RNA targets and obtaining variable levels of gene silencing, and methods of using the same to silence RNA targets in mammals, insects, plants, and fungus. The constructs comprise two or more distinct guide nucleotide sequences (in the abs...