US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 7 for "Organelle-selective gene delivery and expression in the chloroplast in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,173, issued on July 7, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Organelle-selective gene delivery and expression in the chloroplast in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers" was invented by Michael Strano (Lexington, Mass.), Seonyeong Kwak (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tedrick Salim Lew (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a composition can include an organelle, and a nanoparticle having a zeta potential of less than -10 mV or greater than 10 mV contained within the organelle. In a preferred embodiment, the organelle can be a chloroplast and the nan...