US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on May 19 for "Artificial gene and method for mutating gene" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,815, issued on May 19, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Artificial gene and method for mutating gene" was invented by Yasushi Iwata (Tsukuba, Japan), Kanako Tomita (Tsukuba, Japan), Iwane Suzuki (Tsukuba, Japan), Ryo Morioka (Tsukuba, Japan) and Tianjing Yang (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial gene has a 15N abundance exceeding a natural abundance in bases of at least a portion of DNA. A method for mutating a gene includes a first step of producing a state in which 15N is unevenly distributed into a prescribed...