US Patent Issued to Progeneer on April 21 for "Programmed DNA-driven self-assembled RNA hydrogel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,857, issued on April 21, was assigned to Progeneer Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Programmed DNA-driven self-assembled RNA hydrogel" was invented by So Yeon Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Srivithya Vellampatti Krishnamoorthy (Cheon Cheong-dong, South Korea), Soong Ho Um (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Won Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides methods and compositions related to constructing nucleic acid hydrogels (e.g., RNA hydrogels) having repetitive monomer units, each monomer unit includes one or more G-quadruplex sequences. These G-quadruplex sequences cross...