US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on April 21 for "Methods and compositions for efficient delivery of nucleic acids and rna-based antimicrobials" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,834, issued on April 21, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for efficient delivery of nucleic acids and rna-based antimicrobials" was invented by Chase Lawrence Beisel (Raleigh, N.C.), Ahmed Abdelshafy Mahmoud Gomaa (Raleigh, N.C.) and Michelle Luo (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the methods for modifying the methylation pattern of bacteriophage DNA and phagemid DNA and to methods for selective killing of bacteria using lysogenic bacteriophages comprising bacteriophage DNA or phagemid DNA comprising components of an engineered CRISPR-Cas s...