US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 21 for "Compositions, systems, and methods for modulating a target gene" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,777, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Compositions, systems, and methods for modulating a target gene" was invented by Gerald R. Crabtree (Stanford, Calif.), Nathanael Gray (Stanford, Calif.), Sai Gourisankar (Stanford, Calif.), Andrey Krokhotin (Stanford, Calif.), Wenzhi Ji (Stanford, Calif.), Tinghu Zhang (Stanford, Calif.) and Samuel H. Kim (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of regulating expression of a target gene in a cell are provided. Aspects of the methods contacting the cell with a compound having a first moiety coval...