ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,133, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIIGATA UNIVERSITY (Niigata, Japan).
"Antisense nucleic acid and use thereof" was invented by Akihiro Sugai (Niigata, Japan) and Osamu Onodera (Niigata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antisense nucleic acid targeting intron 6 of TDP-43 mRNA, and including a nucleotide sequence complementary to a sequence consisting of 10 or more consecutive bases in a target sequence, wherein the target sequence is the 96th to 330th or 400th to 530th positions of a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1."
The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2021, under Application No. 18/037,194.
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