US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 19 for "Selective curbing of unwanted RNA editing (SECURE) DNA base editor variants" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,821, issued on May 19, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Selective curbing of unwanted RNA editing (SECURE) DNA base editor variants" was invented by Julian Grunewald (Charlestown, Mass.), J. Keith Joung (Winchester, Mass.) and Ronghao Zhou (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Engineered base editor variants with reduced RNA editing activity, and methods of using the same."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2019, under Application No. 17/284,043.

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