US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Aug. 4 for "Methods for making and using genomically recoded cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,504, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods for making and using genomically recoded cells" was invented by George M. Church (Brookline, Mass.) and Akos Nyerges (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods making and using genomically recoded cells or organisms are provided including genomically recoded cells or organisms that lack the ability to translate a foreign nucleic acid sequence into a polypeptide that may be toxic to the genomically recoded cell or organism."

The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2021, under Application No. 18/255,160.

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