ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,084, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Modulating TLR/NF-KB and P53 signaling pathways to enhance interspecies chimerism between evolutionaryily distant species" was invented by Jun Wu (Farmers Branch, Texas), Canbin Zheng (Dallas) and Yingying Hu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are chimeric blastocysts, such as chimeric blastocysts derived from a host blastocyst from a first mammalian species and having donor pluripotent stem cells from a second mammalian species, wherein the donor pluripotent stem cells have reduced expression or reduc...