ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,517, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
"MIRI26-5P for treating motor neuron diseases" was invented by Eran Perlson (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Roy Maimon (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Oded Behar (Moshav Bayit Zait, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for treating motor neuron diseases and neuromuscular junction abnormalities. Particularly, the methods comprise increasing mi RNA 126-5p expression in skeletal muscle cells and/or motor neurons, and/or inhibiting mi RNA 126-5p expression in glial cells, thereby spatially up-regulating and/or down-regulatin...