US Patent Issued to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT on Oct. 6 for "Non-viral transcription activation domains and methods and uses related thereto" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,212, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Non-viral transcription activation domains and methods and uses related thereto" was invented by Dominik Mojzita (Espoo, Finland), Outi Koivistoinen (Espoo, Finland) and Astrid Salumae (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the fields of life sciences, genetics and regulation of gene expression. Specifically, the invention relates to a non-viral transcription activation domain for a eukaryotic host. Also, the present invention relates to a polypeptide or artificial transcription factor comprising the tra...